incident response

  1. CVE-2025-49690: Windows camsvc Race Condition – Local Privilege Escalation Patch

    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...
  2. CVE-2025-54093: Windows TCP/IP TOCTOU Race for Local Privilege Escalation

    Title: CVE‑2025‑54093 — Windows TCP/IP Driver TOCTOU Race Condition (Local Elevation of Privilege) Summary What it is: A time‑of‑check/time‑of‑use (TOCTOU) race condition in the Windows TCP/IP driver that Microsoft lists as CVE‑2025‑54093. Microsoft’s advisory describes the flaw as a TOCTOU...
  3. CVE-2025-54103: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Management Service (UAF)

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54103 describing a use‑after‑free flaw in the Windows Management Service that can allow an unauthorized local user to elevate privileges on a vulnerable host. The vendor-classification marks this as an...
  4. Patch CVE-2025-54098: Securing Hyper-V Against Local Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-54098 as an Improper access control vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally, a condition that requires immediate attention from anyone running Hyper‑V hosts, management servers, or...
  5. CVE-2025-54091: Windows Hyper-V Local Privilege Escalation via Integer Overflow

    CVE-2025-54091 — Windows Hyper‑V integer overflow / wraparound (local elevation of privilege) Summary (one‑line) An integer overflow or wraparound in a Windows Hyper‑V component can be triggered by an authorized local actor and may lead to local elevation of privilege (EoP) on the Hyper‑V host...
  6. CVE-2025-53810: Windows Local Privilege Escalation via Type Confusion in a Privileged Service

    Microsoft’s advisory classifies CVE-2025-53810 as a local elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) in a privileged Windows service that results from “access of resource using incompatible type” (a type‑confusion memory safety bug); Microsoft lists the issue in its Security Update Guide and recommends...
  7. CVE-2025-53809: LSASS DoS via Improper Input Validation in Windows

    Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-53809 warns that improper input validation in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) can be abused by an authorized attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) over a network, putting authentication services and domain...
  8. CVE-2025-27490: Windows Bluetooth Privilege Escalation - Threats, Fixes & Detection

    Thanks — quick clarification before I write the full article: I followed the MSRC link you gave and reached Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for that identifier. However, public vulnerability trackers and vendor advisories discussing the Windows Bluetooth Service elevation-of-privilege...
  9. CVE-2025-53804: Windows Kernel Driver Info Disclosure—What Admins Must Do

    Note: below is a long-form, technically focused feature article about CVE-2025-53804. I drew on Microsoft’s official entry for this CVE and on Microsoft documentation and guidance about kernel-mode drivers and driver blocklists to explain the risk, likely exploitation paths, detection and...
  10. CVE-2025-53800: Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Explained

    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...
  11. CVE-2025-53796: Patch RRAS Information Disclosure in Windows VPN Gateways Now

    Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-53796 to a newly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can cause a buffer over‑read / use of an uninitialized resource, allowing an attacker to disclose memory contents over a network; organizations that run RRAS as a...
  12. Windows Imaging Component CVE-2025-47980: Info-Disclosure Risk and Patch Guidance

    Below is a detailed, publish-ready technical brief on the Windows Imaging Component information-disclosure issue you asked about. I’ve also checked the public advisories and noticed a likely mismatch in the CVE number you supplied — see the “Note on the CVE number” section first. Note on the CVE...
  13. CVE-2025-49692: Azure Arc Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege - Patch & Defend

    CVE-2025-49692 Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Overview What happened: Microsoft has posted an advisory for CVE‑2025‑49692 describing an improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Windows Virtual Machine) Agent that can allow an...
  14. CVE-2025-47997: SQL Server Race Condition Info-Disclosure — Patch Now

    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) advisory describes CVE-2025-47997 as a concurrency (race‑condition) information‑disclosure flaw in Microsoft SQL Server that can be triggered by an authorized user and may allow sensitive memory or data to be leaked over the network; administrators...
  15. Azure Arc Local Privilege Elevation: Patch for CVE-2025-26627 (CVE-2025-55316 Confusion)

    A high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Arc has been disclosed and patched — but the public tracking and identifier details are messy, and administrators must act now to confirm which of their Arc installations are affected, apply vendor fixes, and harden local...
  16. CVE-2024-28916: Xbox Gaming Services link-follow EoP explained

    Title: CVE confusion and the real risk — Xbox Gaming Services “link following” elevation-of-privilege explained Lede Short version for busy admins: the Xbox Gaming Services elevation‑of‑privilege flaw widely discussed in 2024/2025 is indexed publicly as CVE-2024-28916 (CWE‑59: Improper link...
  17. CVE-2025-55236: TOCTOU in Windows Graphics Kernel and Patch Guide

    A newly catalogued vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Kernel, tracked as CVE-2025-55236, is a time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that Microsoft warns can allow an authorized local attacker to execute code on an affected host; the vendor’s advisory identifies the flaw as a...
  18. CVE-2025-55226: Local kernel code execution via Windows Graphics Kernel race condition

    CVE-2025-55226 is a locally exploitable race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated (local) attacker to achieve code execution in kernel context by inducing concurrent access to a shared graphics subsystem resource without proper synchronization. This...
  19. HPC Pack Deserialization Risk: Prepare for Possible RCE (CVE-2025-55232 - unverified)

    Microsoft’s High Performance Compute (HPC) Pack is under scrutiny after a reported deserialization vulnerability that — if the technical description is accurate — would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code over a networked HPC cluster; however, the specific identifier CVE-2025-55232 could...
  20. CVE-2025-55225: RRAS Out-of-Bounds Read Info Disclosure in Windows

    CVE-2025-55225 is an out‑of‑bounds read (information‑disclosure) vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can allow a remote attacker to cause RRAS to return memory contents it should not disclose. Overview What it is: an out‑of‑bounds read /...