CVE-2025-50168

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Aug 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jun 13, 2025

Description

Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion') in Windows Win32K - ICOMP allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 11 version 22H2Microsoft	10.0.22621.0 to before 10.0.22621.5768Affected
Windows 11 version 22H3Microsoft	10.0.22631.0 to before 10.0.22631.5768Affected
Windows 11 Version 23H2Microsoft	10.0.22631.0 to before 10.0.22631.5768Affected
Windows 11 Version 24H2Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.4946Affected
Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)Microsoft	10.0.25398.0 to before 10.0.25398.1791Affected
Windows Server 2025Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.4946Affected
Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.4946Affected

References

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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