elevation of privilege

Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE-2025-49752 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Bastion, and administrators should treat it as a high-priority cloud-management risk while they confirm vendor guidance and deploy the vendor-recommended mitigations. Background...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE‑2025‑60721, a high‑severity elevation‑of‑privilege flaw that targets the new Windows Administrator Protection elevation flow and can let a local, authenticated attacker obtain administrative‑equivalent privileges by abusing a privilege context...

Microsoft has quietly added a powerful — and potentially game‑changing — layer to Windows 11’s privilege model: Administrator Protection, a just‑in‑time elevation system that isolates admin elevation from a signed‑in user by creating a temporary, system‑managed admin context for each elevated...

Microsoft’s October security roll-up revealed a confirmed elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in the Windows Management Services: CVE‑2025‑59193 is a race‑condition (CWE‑362) in an elevated management component that allows an authorized local attacker to escalate to higher privileges on a...

A high‑impact, local elevation‑of‑privilege issue has been reported in Microsoft’s Azure agent ecosystem that can let a low‑privileged local actor escalate to SYSTEM/root on affected hosts and potentially abuse machine‑assigned identities and extension management functionality — but the numeric...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has logged CVE-2025-59205 as an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component — a class of bugs that repeatedly produces high-impact local privilege escalations — and vendors and security practitioners are treating the...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-58725 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows COM+ Event System (Inbox COM) / COM-based handler family that can allow a locally authorized attacker to escalate privileges on affected Windows hosts; administrators should treat this as a...

Microsoft has published advisories and tracking data indicating that a class of memory‑safety flaws in the Windows printing stack — centered on the PrintWorkflowUserSvc service — continues to produce high‑impact local elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities, and administrators must treat...

A new elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent — tracked publicly under multiple CVE identifiers including CVE-2025-58724 in recent feeds — has been confirmed as an improper access control issue that allows an authorized local user to escalate...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53717, a high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in Windows Virtualization‑Based Security (VBS) Enclave that Microsoft characterizes as “reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision.” The vendor‑published metrics list a CVSS v3.1...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-58722: an elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library that can be triggered by an authenticated local user to escalate privileges on affected Windows hosts. The flaw sits in DWM’s memory‑handling...

Microsoft has published a security update addressing CVE-2025-59249, an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server that vendors and trackers classify as high‑severity (CVSS v3.1 base score 8.8) and that Microsoft delivered fixes for as part of the October 14, 2025...

Microsoft has published an advisory for a Desktop Window Manager (DWM) elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑55681, and the technical profile, exploitation risk, and recommended response follow the familiar pattern seen in recent Windows graphics- and UI‑stack advisories: a...

Microsoft released a security update addressing CVE-2025-59201, a high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI) component that allows an authorized local user with low privileges to escalate to higher system privileges, and administrators must...

Quick clarification before I write the full 2,000+ word article: I couldn't find any public advisory or reliable references for CVE-2025-53782. The MSRC/Exchange incident most commonly referenced in mid‑/late‑2025 is CVE-2025-53786 (a hybrid Exchange → Entra ID elevation-of-privilege issue)...

Microsoft's latest annual Windows 11 feature update landed this week, but one of the security items that promised to change how administrators elevate privileges in office and enterprise environments will not be ready for immediate deployment — Administrator Protection has been pushed out of...

Windows' built‑in security toolbox is larger and more capable than it has ever been, but several of its most visible safeguards can — paradoxically — reduce real‑world security when design and deployment interact with human behavior and system performance. Four features in particular — User...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54105 — a local elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Brokering File System (BFS) caused by a concurrency bug (race condition) that can be exploited by an authenticated local user to gain elevated rights on the host. Background The...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2025-54104 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service caused by an “access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” — in short, a type‑confusion bug in a privileged service that an authorized...

Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE‑2025‑53800 as an Elevation of Privilege in the Windows Graphics Component that can be triggered by an authorized local attacker, but the publicly available advisory lacks full technical detail and additional contextual data remains limited at the...