Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level.
Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.
Security updates
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-21235 Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21235
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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