Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
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?
An authorized attacker with privileges could send controlled inputs to exploit this vulnerability.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain specific limited SYSTEM privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7678 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063877
10.0.20348.4052 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063880
10.0.20348.3989 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063812
10.0.19044.6216 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063709
10.0.22621.5768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063875
10.0.26100.4946 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063878
10.0.26100.4851 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5064010
10.0.25398.1791 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063899
10.0.10240.21100 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063889
10.0.14393.8330 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063871
6.0.6003.23471 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063888
6.0.6003.23471 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063948
6.1.7601.27872 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063947
6.1.7601.27872 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063927
6.2.9200.25622 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063906
6.3.9600.22725 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063950
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.7
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Microsoft Graphics Component allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-49743 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49743
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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