Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that an attacker send a malicious link to the victim via email, or that they convince the user to click the link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or Instant Messenger message. In the worst-case email attack scenario, an attacker could send a specially crafted email to the user without a requirement that the victim open, read, or click on the link. This could result in the attacker executing remote code on the victim's machine. When multiple attack vectors can be used, we assign a score based on the scenario with the higher risk (UI:N).
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.
Security updates
10.0.20348.3328 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053603
10.0.20348.3270 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053638
10.0.22621.5039 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053602
10.0.26100.3476 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053598
10.0.26100.3403 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053636
10.0.25398.1486 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053599
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.4
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
Revision history
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#2
Added an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-24084 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24084
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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