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.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Minimal interaction with a malicious file by a user such as selecting (single-click), inspecting (right-click), or performing an action other than opening or executing the file could trigger this vulnerability.
Security updates
10.0.17763.8146 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071544
10.0.20348.4529 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071547
10.0.20348.4467 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071413
10.0.19044.6691 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071546
10.0.26100.7462 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5072033
10.0.26100.7392 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5072014
10.0.22631.6345 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071417
10.0.25398.2025 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071542
10.0.14393.8688 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071543
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Windows File Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-62565 Windows File Explorer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62565
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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