Description

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

Known Exploited

🚨 Marked as known exploited on March 11th, 2025 (about 1 month ago).

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-24983

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.0

CVSS Vector: 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

Affected Products

Vendor: Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft

Product: Windows 10 Version 1507, Windows 10 Version 1607, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation), Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 1.91% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 81.76% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-09 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: active

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24983
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24983

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