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Critical MSRC-CVE-2025-48807 1 CVE

Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Aug 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 9, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. 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?
A race condition is triggered when the admin begins administering from the host system and not a guest or nested guest.

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.
The vulnerable endpoint is only available over the local VM interface as all external communication is blocked. This means an attacker needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
At the time the authorized attacker sends a specially crafted request an administrator needs to take action on the host.

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker on a nested guest VM who successfully exploited the vulnerability could escape their VM and gain admin privilege on the guest that is serving as the host.
For diagrams and more detailed information about nested VMs please see Run Hyper-V in a Virtual Machine with Nested Virtualization.

Security updates
10.0.17763.7792 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065428
10.0.20348.4171 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065432
10.0.20348.4106 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065306
10.0.19044.6332 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065429
10.0.22621.5909 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065431
10.0.26100.6584 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065426
10.0.26100.6508 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065474
10.0.25398.1849 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065425
10.0.14393.8422 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065427

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    To comprehensively address CVE-2025-48807, Microsoft has released September 2025 security updates for the following versions of Windows: Windows Server 2016 and newer, x64-based editions of Windows 10 Version 1607 and Windows 10 Version 1809, and all supported versions of Windows 10 Version 21H2 and newer and Windows 11 Version 22H2 and newer. Microsoft recommends that customers install the update to be fully protected from the vulnerability. Customers whose systems are configured to receive automatic updates do not need to take any further action.

  2. #1

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

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