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, 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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
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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High 7.3
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Win32K - GRFX allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-50161 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-50161
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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