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High MSRC-CVE-2025-21292 1 CVE

Windows Search Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Jan 14, 2025

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.

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

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Revision history

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