Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. 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 win a race condition.
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
10.0.17763.8027 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068791
10.0.20348.4405 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068787
10.0.20348.4346 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068840
10.0.19044.6575 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068781
10.0.26100.7171 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068861
10.0.26100.7092 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068966
10.0.22631.6199 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068865
10.0.25398.1965 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068779
10.0.14393.8594 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068864
6.2.9200.25768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068907
6.3.9600.22869 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068905
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows DirectX allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-59506 DirectX Graphics Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59506
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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