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, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to gain elevated privileges enabling them to perform file operations in directories they would not normally be able to access or perform.
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.
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 7.0CVE-2025-49744 Public exploit
Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow 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-2025-49744 Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49744
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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