Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Critical. 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 vector is network (AV:N) and the attack complexity is low (AC:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attack vector is Network (AV:N) because this vulnerability is remotely exploitable and can be exploited from the internet. The attack complexity is Low (AC:L) because an attacker does not require significant prior knowledge of the system and can achieve repeatable success with the payload against the vulnerable component.
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 8.8
Windows NTLM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper authentication in Windows NTLM allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-54918 Windows NTLM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54918
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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