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High MSRC-CVE-2025-64661 1 CVE

Windows Shell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Dec 9, 2025 · Updated Dec 9, 2025

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.

According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability could lead to a contained execution environment escape. Please refer to AppContainer Isolation for more information.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker could use this vulnerability to elevate privileges from a Low Integrity Level in a contained ("sandboxed") execution environment to a Medium Integrity Level. Please refer to AppContainer isolation and Mandatory Integrity Control for more information.

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

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