CVE-2025-24983

Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Mar 11, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jan 30, 2025

Description

Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 10 Version 1507Microsoft	10.0.10240.0 to before 10.0.10240.20947Affected
Windows 10 Version 1607Microsoft	10.0.14393.0 to before 10.0.14393.7876Affected
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1Microsoft	6.1.7601.0 to before 6.1.7601.27618Affected
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.1.7601.0 to before 6.1.7601.27618Affected
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2Microsoft	6.0.6003.0 to before 6.0.6003.23168Affected
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.0.6003.0 to before 6.0.6003.23168Affected
Windows Server 2012Microsoft	6.2.9200.0 to before 6.2.9200.25368Affected
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.2.9200.0 to before 6.2.9200.25368Affected
Windows Server 2012 R2Microsoft	6.3.9600.0 to before 6.3.9600.22470Affected
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.3.9600.0 to before 6.3.9600.22470Affected
Windows Server 2016Microsoft	10.0.14393.0 to before 10.0.14393.7876Affected
Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	10.0.14393.0 to before 10.0.14393.7876Affected

References

Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24983government-resource

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