Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Critical. 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 who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by getting access to the local guest VM so they can attack the Host OS.
According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
Compromising the host enables an attacker to impact other virtual machines running on the same host, even if those VMs are not directly vulnerable to this issue.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.19044.6456 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066791
10.0.22621.6060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066793
10.0.26100.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.9
Microsoft Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Graphics Component allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-49708 Microsoft Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49708
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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