CVE-2022-21970
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2022-21970- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-27125
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Record
EUVD-2022-27125- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-66r4-h3rj-rhfx
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from...
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2022-21954.
- Record
GHSA-66r4-h3rj-rhfx- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Record
CVE-2022-21970- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L - CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 8.3 High
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PoC in GitHub | Malwareman007/CVE-2022-21970 | 2022-10-20 |
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-2022-21970 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) in Microsoft Edge (chromium-based), published January 11, 2022. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.69%, the 85th percentile. No source names a fixed version.