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, 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.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from Medium Integrity Level to Local Service.
Security updates
10.0.26200.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Device Association Broker Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows Device Association Broker service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-50174 Windows Device Association Broker Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-50174
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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