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High MSRC-CVE-2025-64679 1 CVE

Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Dec 9, 2025 · Updated Jan 14, 2026 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

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
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.19044.6456 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066791
10.0.22621.6060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066793
10.0.26100.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
10.0.10240.21161 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066837
10.0.14393.8519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066836

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Updated the build numbers. This is an informational update only.

  2. #1

    Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in October 2025, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the October 2025 Security Updates. Microsoft strongly recommends that customers running affected versions of Windows install the October 2025 updates to be protected from this vulnerability.

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