CISA warns of attackers now exploiting Windows Print Spooler bug

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three new security flaws to its list of actively exploited bugs, including a local privilege escalation bug in the Windows Print Spooler.
This high severity vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2022-22718) impacts all versions of Windows per Microsoft's advisory and it was patched during the February 2022 Patch Tuesday.


The only information Microsoft shared about this security flaw is that threat actors can exploit it locally in low-complexity attacks without user interaction.
Redmond patched several other Windows Print Spooler bugs in the last 12 months, including the critical PrintNightmare remote code execution vulnerability.

After technical details and a proof-of-concept (POC) exploit for PrintNightmare were accidentally leaked, CISA warned admins to disable the Windows Print Spooler service on Domain Controllers and systems not used for printing to block potentially incoming attacks.

Last week, CISA added another privilege escalation bug in the Windows Common Log File System Driver to the list of flaws exploited in the wild, a bug reported by CrowdStrike and the US National Security Agency (NSA) and patched by Microsoft during this month's Patch Tuesday.

 

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CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow on the of the "Date Added to Catalog" column, which will sort by descending dates.

Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a living list of known CVEs that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise. BOD 22-01 requires FCEB agencies to remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect FCEB networks against active threats. See the BOD 22-01 Fact Sheet for more information.

Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practice. CISA will continue to add vulnerabilities to the Catalog that meet the meet the specified criteria.