A newly disclosed race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows Capability Access Management Service (camsvc) can be abused by a local attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on unpatched hosts, and organizations should treat the advisory as a high‑priority patching event for affected Windows...
The Capability Access Management Service (camsvc) in Windows has been identified with a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability, designated as CVE-2025-49690. This flaw arises from a race condition due to improper synchronization when multiple processes concurrently access shared resources...
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