CVE-2022-26795

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-26795 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Windows Print Spooler service across various Windows 10, 11, and Server versions. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		20h2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:20h2:::::::*
		21h1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:21h1:::::::*
		21h2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:21h2:::::::*
		1809CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1809:::::::*
		1909CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1909:::::::*

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

0.59%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

44.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0059 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 17,070 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 (21)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.2803

CVE-2022-26795

Impacted Technologies

CVSS Data

Exploit Intelligence

Social Chatter

Media Mentions

Remediation

Vendor Patches (21)

Vendor Advisories (1)

References