Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, attack vector is (AV:N) and user interaction is none (UI:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This can happen without user intervention. An attacker can use an uninitialized function pointer being called when decoding a JPEG image. This can be embedded in Office and 3rd party documents/files
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could achieve remote code execution without user interaction.
Security updates
10.0.26100.4946 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5063878
10.0.26100.4851 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5064010
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.8
Windows Graphics Component Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Graphics Component allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-50165 Windows Graphics Component Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-50165
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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