CVE-2022-29799: Microsoft Windows Defender For Endpoint

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 11.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in networkd-dispatcher. This flaw exists because no functions are sanitized by the OperationalState or the AdministrativeState of networkd-dispatcher. This attack leads to a directory traversal to escape from the “/etc/networkd-dispatcher” base directory.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Defender For Endpoint: any version

Published 2022-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.