MSRC-CVE-2025-64669 — Windows Admin Center 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
2.6.5.16 — https://aka.ms/wac2511

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-64669

Windows Admin Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper access control in Windows Admin Center allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Windows Admin Center Windows

Dec 11, 2025

Revision history

2026-04-16 #3
Acknowledgement added. This is an informational change only.
2025-12-11 #2
Corrected Build Number in the Security Updates table. This is an informational change only.
2025-12-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-64669 Windows Admin Center Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-64669
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