Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Exploited according to Microsoft — Exploitation Detected. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
Security updates
10.0.10240.20947 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053618
10.0.14393.7876 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053594
6.0.6003.23168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053888
6.0.6003.23168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053995
6.1.7601.27618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053620
6.1.7601.27618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053627
6.2.9200.25368 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053886
6.3.9600.22470 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053887
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0CVE-2025-24983 Exploited
Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
KEV Mar 11, 2025
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-24983 Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24983
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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