Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into sending a request to a malicious server. This could result in the server returning malicious data that might cause arbitrary code execution on the user's system.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and the user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires a client to connect to a malicious server, and that could allow the attacker to gain code execution on the client.
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
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050063
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050061
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050049
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050006
6.2.9200.25273 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050004
6.3.9600.22371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050048
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Telephony Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows Telephony Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-21246 Windows Telephony Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21246
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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