PT-2022-2763 · Microsoft+1 · Powershell+2

Firooz Akbari + 3 · Published 2022-04-12 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2022-26788

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PowerShell (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the PowerShell interpreter, associated with insufficient access restrictions. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, affecting the system.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2022-2263

ALT-PU-2023-4713

ALT-PU-2025-2023

BDU:2022-03282

BIT-POWERSHELL-2022-26788

CVE-2022-26788

GHSA-Q7X5-X7RR-2859

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Powershell

Windows

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q7x5-x7rr-2859 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-03282 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-powershell-2022-26788 · Vendor Advisory
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26788 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-26788 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26788 · Security Note
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2022-26788 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26788 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell · Note
• https://github.com/PowerShell/Announcements/issues/31 · Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2022-26788 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/40943 · Telegram Post