Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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- Mar 9, 2022
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 18.8% · 97th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
41
Plan
Add it to your regular patch cycle.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 6 / 30 · 18.8%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · microsoft
- 8.8
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft | windows 10 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10 |
| microsoft | windows 11 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11 |
| microsoft | windows 7 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7 |
| microsoft | windows 8.1 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1 |
| microsoft | windows rt 8.1 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_rt_8.1 |
| microsoft | windows server | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server |
| microsoft | windows server 2008 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008 |
| microsoft | windows server 2012 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012 |
| microsoft | windows server 2016 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016 |
| microsoft | windows server 2019 | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019 |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- microsoft windows server2022
- microsoft windows server20h2
- microsoft windows server 2008all versions
- microsoft windows server 2008r2
- microsoft windows server 2012all versions
- microsoft windows server 2012r2
- microsoft windows server 2016all versions
- microsoft windows server 2019all versions
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (microsoft). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Microsoft Remote Desktop client for Windows Desktop
- 1.2.0.0 and later · before 1.2.2925.0affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507
- 10.0.10240.0 and later · before 10.0.10240.19235affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607
- 10.0.14393.0 and later · before 10.0.14393.5006affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1809
- 10.0.17763.0 and later · before 10.0.17763.2686affected
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.17763.2686affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1909
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.18363.2158affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 20H2
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.19042.1586affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H1
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.19043.1586affected
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2
- 10.0.19043.0 and later · before 10.0.19044.1586affected
Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2
- 10.0.0 and later · before 10.0.22000.556affected
Microsoft Windows 7
- 6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.7601.25898affected
Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1
- 6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.7601.25898affected
Microsoft Windows 8.1
- 6.3.0 and later · before 6.3.9600.20303affected
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.