Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker with low integrity level privileges who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain medium integrity level privileges.
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.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7136 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5055519
10.0.19044.5737 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5055518
10.0.22621.5189 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5055528
10.0.26100.3775 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5055523
10.0.25398.1551 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5055527
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows Digital Media allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-26640 Windows Digital Media Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-26640
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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