Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could project to a vulnerable system on the same wireless network that was configured to allow "Projecting to this PC" and marked as "Available Everywhere". This is not a default configuration.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required are none (PR:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An unauthorized attacker must wait for a user to initiate a connection.
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.0
Windows Miracast Wireless Display Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Media allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over an adjacent network.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-49691 Windows Miracast Wireless Display Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49691
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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