Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. 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.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7558 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062557
10.0.20348.3932 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062572
10.0.19044.6093 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062554
10.0.22621.5624 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062552
10.0.26100.4652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062553
10.0.25398.1732 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062570
10.0.10240.21073 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062561
10.0.14393.8246 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062560
6.0.6003.23418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062624
6.0.6003.23418 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062618
6.1.7601.27820 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062632
6.1.7601.27820 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062619
6.2.9200.25573 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062592
6.3.9600.22676 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062597
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows MBT Transport Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows MBT Transport driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#2
Corrected Download and Article links in the Security Updates table. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in July 2025, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the July 2025 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the July 2025 updates do not need to take any further action.
References
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CVE-2025-55230 Windows MBT Transport Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55230
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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