Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
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
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.26100.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
10.0.14393.8519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066836
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-59186 Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59186
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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