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CVE-2022-34723

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-34723 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Windows DPAPI in Microsoft Windows 11. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows a local attacker with low privileges to disclose sensitive information without user interaction, potentially leading to a compromise of confidentiality. While there is no public exploit code or significant community discussion, it was addressed in the September 2022 Patch Tuesday, indicating it may have been actively exploited as a zero-day.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11:-:*:*:*:*:*:arm64:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11:-:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.978
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows 11 version 21H2 for ARM64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22000.978
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Sep/CVE-2022-34723Important

Windows DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Sep 13, 2022

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-34723