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CVE-2022-44698 Unmapped
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Defender
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Defender SmartScreen contains a security feature bypass vulnerability that could allow an attacker to evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses via a specially crafted malicious file.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-12-13
- Due date
- 2023-01-03
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-755
- CISA notes
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-44698
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44698 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2022-44698. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-755) — here is why — and does not guess.
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