**According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?**

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.

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**20221103**

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CVE-2022-44710: DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**According to the score, privileges required is equal to low. In this situation, what does that mean?**

An attacker with non-admin credentials can potentially carry out an exploit using this vulnerability.

**How can an attacker exploit this vulnerability?**

The authenticated attacker could take advantage of a vulnerability in dxgkrnl.sys to execute an arbitrary pointer dereference in kernel mode.

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#Windows DirectX