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High MSRC-CVE-2025-26634 1 CVE

Windows Core Messaging Elevation of Privileges Vulnerability

Published Mar 11, 2025 · Updated Mar 11, 2025

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. 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 gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.

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
10.0.17763.6893 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052000
10.0.20348.3207 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051979
10.0.19044.5487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051974
10.0.22621.4890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051989
10.0.26100.3194 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051987
10.0.25398.1425 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051980
10.0.10240.20915 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052040
10.0.14393.7785 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052006

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #1

    Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in February 2025, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the February 2025 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the February 2025 updates do not need to take any further action.

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