Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. 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 prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of certain memory address within kernel space. Knowing the exact location of kernel memory could be potentially leveraged by an attacker for other malicious activities.
Security updates
10.0.26200.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.19044.6456 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066791
10.0.22621.6060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066793
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.1
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper input validation in Windows Kernel allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-55679 Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55679
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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