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VulnerabilityCVE-2022-38028Published 2022-10-11

CVE-2022-38028 — Microsoft Windows 10 1507

highCISA KEV

As of 2025-10-30, CVE-2022-38028 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507, CVSS v3.1 7.8, EPSS 4.9% (89.6th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-04-23), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-05-14. No Threadlinqs-tracked threat campaign has been attributed to CVE-2022-38028 as of 2025-10-30; the identifier is re-checked against the Threadlinqs threat corpus on every daily ingest.

CVSS v3.1
7.8/10High
EPSS
4.9%Higher than 89.6% of scored CVEs
CISA KEV
ListedAdded · due 2024-05-14
Tracked threats
0None linked yet
Priority
9/10Threadlinqs triage score
Published
Updated 2025-10-30
CVSS v3.1 7.8 (HIGH) · EPSS 4.9% (higher than 89.6% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2022-10-11

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What is CVE-2022-38028?

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The record classifies CVE-2022-38028 under weakness class NVD-CWE-noinfo. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 16 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1455 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
7.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.6% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2024-04-23, federal remediation deadline 2024-05-14
Threadlinqs priority
9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published
2022-10-11, last modified 2025-10-30

Is CVE-2022-38028 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2022-38028 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-04-23, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-05-14 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 37 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

  • Microsoft: Windows 10 1507, Windows 10 1607, Windows 10 1809, Windows 10 20h2, Windows 10 21h1, Windows 10 21h2, Windows 11 22h2, Windows 8.1, Windows Rt 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 r2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022

Showing 14 of 16 recorded product entries.

How to fix CVE-2022-38028

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2022-38028. Patch reference: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38028. Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38028. Because CVE-2022-38028 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-05-14. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2022-38028

No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2022-38028, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.