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High MSRC-CVE-2025-54099 1 CVE

Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Sep 9, 2025 · Updated Nov 20, 2025 · Revision 2

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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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

Revision history

  1. #2

    Acknowledgement added. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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