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.
Security updates
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
10.0.14393.8422 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5065427
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Connected Devices Platform Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#2
Updated Security Impact values. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-54114 Windows Connected Devices Platform Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54114
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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