CVE-2022-21894
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2022-21894- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-27050
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- Record
EUVD-2022-27050- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-q5c9-xwjv-3hcq
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability.
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability.
- Record
GHSA-q5c9-xwjv-3hcq- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2022-21894- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.9 Medium
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-863
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
- microsoft windows 10 version 1507
- microsoft windows 10 version 1607
- microsoft windows 10 version 1809
- microsoft windows 10 version 1909
- microsoft windows 10 version 20h2
- microsoft windows 10 version 21h1
- microsoft windows 10 version 21h2
- microsoft windows 11 version 21h2
- microsoft windows 8.1
- microsoft windows server 2012
- microsoft windows server 2012 (server core installation)
- microsoft windows server 2012 r2
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- microsoft windows server 2012 r2 (server core installation)
- microsoft windows server 2016
- microsoft windows server 2016 (server core installation)
- microsoft windows server 2019
- microsoft windows server 2019 (server core installation)
- microsoft windows server 2022
- microsoft windows server version 20h2
- microsoft windows 10
- microsoft windows 11
- microsoft windows server
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PoC in GitHub | ASkyeye/CVE-2022-21894-Payload | 2022-08-18 |
| PoC in GitHub | Wack0/CVE-2022-21894 | 2022-08-09 |
| PoC in GitHub | Wack0/batondrop_armv7 | 2023-03-11 |
| PoC in GitHub | bakedmuffinman/BlackLotusDetection | 2023-04-12 |
| PoC in GitHub | nova-master/CVE-2022-21894-Payload-New | 2023-09-26 |
| PoC in GitHub | qjawls2003/BlackLotus-Detection | 2023-04-12 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, PoC in GitHub |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-21894 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.4) in Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507, published January 11, 2022. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 9.12%, the 95th percentile. No source names a fixed version.