CVE-2022-41080 on CISA KEV

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• msrc.microsoft.com — https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41080

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 23	15.01.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 12	15.02.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23	15.00.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 11	15.02.0
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 22	15.0.0

06Detection

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