local privilege escalation

Microsoft’s advisory that CVE-2025-50174 is an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Windows Device Association Broker Service confirms a real, exploitable weakness that administrators should treat as high priority for patching and remediation across affected Windows builds. Background /...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-55247, a .NET elevation-of-privilege vulnerability rooted in improper link resolution before file access (commonly called “link following”), which can allow an authorized local user to escalate privileges on affected systems; industry trackers...

Microsoft’s advisory record for the CVE identifier you supplied (CVE‑2025‑47989) does not resolve to a public MSRC advisory; however, a confirmed elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) defect in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc / azcmagent) family has been published, tracked in vendor advisories and...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-59216 describes a race-condition vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component that can allow an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges if they can win a timing window. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-59216 is a “concurrent execution using...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...

Improper access control in Windows MultiPoint Services (CVE-2025-54116) allows a locally authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on an affected host. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-54116 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Services...

CVE-2025-54109 Windows Defender Firewall Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Summary What it is: CVE-2025-54109 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability described by Microsoft as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" in the Windows Defender Firewall...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-54092 as a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V: the issue is described as a concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (a race condition) that an authorized local attacker could leverage to elevate...

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...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53801: an untrusted pointer dereference in the Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected systems. The flaw resides in DWM’s memory handling and, when...

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...

CVE-2025-54111 — Windows UI XAML Phone DatePickerFlyout: Use‑After‑Free Leads to Local Privilege Escalation By [Your Name], WindowsForum.com — Sep 9, 2025 Summary Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑54111 to a use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows UI XAML Phone DatePickerFlyout control. The...

Microsoft’s security update guide lists a high‑risk elevation‑of‑privilege entry for the Windows MBT Transport driver that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from an untrusted pointer dereference and can be used by an authorized local user to escalate to SYSTEM — a kernel‑level impact that...

A high-severity privilege-escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint that allows a local attacker to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior; the issue (CVE-2025-7973) carries a CVSS v4 base score of 8.5 and affects FactoryTalk...

Windows Hyper‑V contains a vulnerability tracked as CVE‑2025‑48807 that, according to the vendor advisory, stems from improper restriction of a Hyper‑V communication channel to its intended endpoints and can be abused by an authorized attacker to execute code locally on an affected host. This...