Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain 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
10.0.17763.7792 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065428
10.0.20348.4171 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065432
10.0.20348.4106 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065306
10.0.19044.6332 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065429
10.0.22621.5909 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065431
10.0.26100.6584 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065426
10.0.26100.6508 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065474
10.0.25398.1849 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065425
10.0.10240.21128 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065430
10.0.14393.8422 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065427
6.0.6003.23529 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065508
6.0.6003.23529 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065511
6.1.7601.27929 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065468
6.1.7601.27929 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065510
6.2.9200.25675 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065509
6.3.9600.22774 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065507
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows TCP/IP Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows TCP/IP allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-54093 Windows TCP/IP Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54093
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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