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High MSRC-CVE-2026-25190 1 CVE

Windows GDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Mar 10, 2026 · Updated Mar 10, 2026

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What does the user need to do to allow for success?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to extract and run a specially crafted installer from an untrusted directory. When executed, Windows may load a malicious DLL due to unsafe dependency loading behavior in gdi32full.dll, resulting in arbitrary code execution.

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

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