Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. 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 the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially gain the ability to crash the system by exploiting the use-after-free vulnerability, even as a standard user.
Security updates
10.0.26100.7462 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5072033
10.0.26100.7392 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5072014
10.0.25398.2025 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5071542
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Brokering File System allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-62569 Microsoft Brokering File System Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62569
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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