Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is physical (AV:P). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needs physical access to the victim's machine.
Security updates
10.0.17763.6775 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050008
10.0.20348.3091 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049983
10.0.19044.5371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049981
10.0.22621.4751 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050021
10.0.26100.2894 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050009
10.0.25398.1369 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049984
10.0.10240.20890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050013
10.0.14393.7699 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049993
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.1
Windows Recovery Environment Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Recovery Environment Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-21202 Windows Recovery Environment Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21202
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss