CVE-2022-29113

Summary

CVE-2022-29113 is a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Windows Digital Media Receiver. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can gain administrative control over an affected system. This issue arises due to insufficient access control checks in the software, allowing unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code. Systems with the Digital Media Receiver feature enabled are at risk. It is highly recommended that affected organizations install the available Microsoft patch as soon as possible to mitigate this threat.

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