CVE-2022-44689

Summary

CVE-2022-44689 is a kernel elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). An attacker who successfully exploits this flaw can gain administrative privileges on the host system, bypassing WSL2's security boundaries. This vulnerability poses a serious risk, as it allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to compromise WSL2 and ultimately gain control over the entire system. Microsoft has released a patch to address this issue, and it is recommended that all WSL2 users install the update as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.

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