Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. 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, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that an attacker needs to be in the same restricted Active Directory domain as the target system. The attack surface is not reachable from broader networks, which is why the attack vector is considered adjacent (AV:A).
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted malicious traffic to a vulnerable server.
Security updates
10.0.28000.1719 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079466
10.0.17763.8511 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078752
10.0.20348.4893 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078766
10.0.20348.4830 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078737
10.0.19044.7058 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078885
10.0.26100.32522 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078740
10.0.26100.32463 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078736
10.0.26200.8037 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079473
10.0.26200.7979 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5079420
10.0.22631.6783 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078883
10.0.25398.2207 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078734
10.0.14393.8957 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078938
6.2.9200.25973 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078775
6.3.9600.23074 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5078774
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Telephony Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Telephony Service allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over an adjacent network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-25188 Windows Telephony Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-25188
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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