MSRC-CVE-2025-59290 — Windows Bluetooth Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less 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.

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
10.0.22631.5909 — 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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-59290

Windows Bluetooth Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Use after free in Windows Bluetooth Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Windows 10 Version 21H2 Windows 10 Version 22H2 Windows

Oct 14, 2025

Revision history

2025-10-14 #1
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in September 2025, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the September 2025 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the September 2025 updates do not need to take any further action.

References

CVE-2025-59290 Windows Bluetooth Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59290
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss