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High MSRC-CVE-2025-49689 1 CVE

Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jul 8, 2025 · Updated Jul 9, 2025 · Revision 2

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 vector is local (AV:L) while user interaction is required (UI:R). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker can trick a local user on a vulnerable system into mounting a specially crafted VHD that would then trigger the vulnerability.

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
10.0.17763.7558 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062557
10.0.20348.3932 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062572
10.0.19044.6093 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062554
10.0.22621.5624 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062552
10.0.26100.4652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062553
10.0.25398.1732 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062570
10.0.10240.21073 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062561
10.0.14393.8246 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062560
6.0.6003.23418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062624
6.0.6003.23418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062618
6.1.7601.27820 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062632
6.1.7601.27820 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062619
6.2.9200.25573 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062592
6.3.9600.22676 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062597

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Updated acknowledgment. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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