Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited, publicly disclosed before the fix — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
When multiple attack vectors can be used, we assign a score based on the scenario with the higher risk. In one such scenario for this vulnerability, the attacker could convince a victim to connect to an attacker controlled malicious application (for example, SMB) server. Upon connecting, the malicious server could compromise the protocol.
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could execute a specially crafted script to coerce the victim machine to connect back to the attacker’s SMB Server using SMB and authenticate. This could result in elevation of privilege.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060531
10.0.20348.3807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060526
10.0.20348.3745 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060525
10.0.19044.5965 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060533
10.0.22621.5472 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060999
10.0.26100.4349 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060842
10.0.26100.4270 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060841
10.0.25398.1665 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060118
10.0.10240.21034 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060998
10.0.14393.8148 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061010
6.0.6003.23351 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061026
6.0.6003.23351 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061072
6.1.7601.27769 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061078
6.1.7601.27769 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061036
6.2.9200.25522 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061059
6.3.9600.22620 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061018
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows SMB Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper access control in Windows SMB allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
KEV Oct 20, 2025
Revision history
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#2
Acknowledgement added. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-33073 Windows SMB Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-33073
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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