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CVE-2022-38007

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38007 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Guest Configuration and Azure Arc-enabled servers. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges with low attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While Microsoft has patched this flaw, there is no public exploit code available, nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, though it was mentioned in a BleepingComputer article regarding Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_arc:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_guest_configuration:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Guest ConfigurationFixed in: V1.21
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure ARCFixed in: 1.22
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-38007Important

Azure Guest Configuration and Azure Arc-enabled servers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Sep 13, 2022

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-38007
PatchVendor Advisory
msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38007