privilege-escalation

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) code used inside several SIMOTION setup components contains a local privilege‑escalation flaw that Siemens and U.S. cyber authorities have republished as a coordinated advisory, warning that installing affected SIMOTION Tools on Windows can allow an...

Microsoft’s terse advisory that “concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (‘race condition’) in Windows Hyper‑V allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally” is the single-line summary administrators need to treat as urgent: this is a Hyper‑V race...

Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE-2025-54112 as a vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) handling code that can be abused by an authorized local attacker to achieve elevation of privilege on Windows hosts, a condition vendors and incident responders classify as...

Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-54094 identifies a type‑confusion flaw in the Windows Defender Firewall Service that can be triggered by an authorized local actor to perform a local Elevation of Privilege (EoP) — in short, an attacker with the ability to run code as a non‑privileged...

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...

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A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) has been cataloged by Microsoft as an elevation‑of‑privilege issue that can let an authorized, local attacker escalate to SYSTEM, and administrators should treat it as a high‑priority patching item while...

Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update introduced a security hardening to Windows Installer that is triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and breaking silent MSI repair/configuration flows for standard (non‑administrator) users across a...

Microsoft has acknowledged a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 cumulative Windows updates that can cause unexpected User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompts and MSI Error 1730 failures for non‑administrator users when applications trigger Windows Installer (MSI)...

Schneider Electric has published an advisory—republished by CISA—about an improper privilege management vulnerability in its Saitel family of Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) that has been assigned CVE‑2025‑8453 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.7, affecting Saitel DR RTU firmware versions...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has issued a high‑severity warning about a broad set of vulnerabilities across Microsoft products — a multi‑component risk that demands immediate patching and tighter operational controls from both home users and enterprise IT teams. Background / Overview...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) on 18 August 2025 issued a high‑risk advisory warning that multiple critical vulnerabilities across Microsoft’s product portfolio place millions of Windows and Office users in India — from home desktops to enterprise Azure deployments — at...

Siemens’ SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager was republished in a consolidated advisory this August after vendor and national vulnerability databases identified a high‑severity improper input‑validation flaw that can give an authenticated attacker with elevated application privileges the potential to...

Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...

Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-49707 — Azure Virtual Machines Improper Access Control Allows Local Spoofing (What IT Teams Must Do Now) Summary Microsoft has published guidance for CVE-2025-49707: an improper access-control vulnerability in Azure Virtual Machines that allows an authorized attacker to...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-47954 describes an SQL Injection–style weakness in Microsoft SQL Server that can allow an authenticated actor to escalate privileges across the network — a high‑impact finding that requires immediate attention from DBAs and security teams. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53723: a numeric truncation error in Windows Hyper‑V that Microsoft classifies as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability; the vendor states an authorized local attacker can exploit the flaw to escalate privileges on affected hosts...

CVE-2025-48000 (note on numbering) — Windows Connected Devices Platform Service: use‑after‑free Elevation‑of‑Privilege Subtitle: Patch now — local authenticated attackers can escalate to SYSTEM via CDPSvc memory corruption Byline: Jane Doe — Senior Security Reporter, WindowsForum.com Short...

Note: I couldn’t find any authoritative record for CVE-2025-53156 in the major public vulnerability databases (MSRC / NVD / MITRE / CVE.circl / CVE Details) as of August 12, 2025. The Storage Port Driver information-disclosure vulnerability widely reported in Microsoft’s June 2025 updates is...

Title: CVE-2025-49743 — Windows Graphics Component race-condition allows local privilege escalation: what admins need to know and do now Summary What it is: CVE-2025-49743 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Microsoft Graphics Component caused by a race condition (concurrent...