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cve 2025 64661
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CVE-2025-64661 is a high-severity Windows Shell elevation-of-privilege vulnerability caused by a race condition. It is scored 7.8 on the CVSS v3.1 scale and requires local access, meaning an attacker must already have the ability to run code as a standard user. Exploitation allows privilege escalation on affected systems. Microsoft has released a security patch to address this issue. Users should apply the update promptly to mitigate risk.
Microsoft’s security trackers and multiple independent feeds recorded CVE-2025-64661 as a Windows Shell elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability rooted in a race condition (concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization). The vulnerability is scored as High (CVSS...