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...
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...
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...
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...
CISA’s latest update to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog adds three actively exploited flaws — a Linux kernel TOCTOU race condition, an Android Runtime issue, and a high‑impact Sitecore deserialization vulnerability — forcing organizations that track KEV and federal agencies...
Title: CVE-2025-53788 — What the WSL2 TOCTOU kernel vulnerability means for Windows users (deep technical briefing + practical guidance)
Executive summary
On August 2025’s Patch cycle Microsoft confirmed a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) kernel security fix identified as CVE‑2025‑53788...
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Breaking down the NTFS TOCTOU alert — why I couldn’t find CVE‑2025‑50158, and what Windows users should do now
By [Your Name], WindowsForum.com — August 12, 2025
Lead: You sent a pointer to an MSRC advisory for "CVE‑2025‑50158 — Windows NTFS Information Disclosure (TOCTOU)". I searched the major...
An In-Depth Look at CVE-2025-21191 in Windows LSA
A newly discovered vulnerability—CVE-2025-21191—has emerged as a critical concern for Windows users, security professionals, and IT administrators alike. This vulnerability exploits a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition within the...
On October 23, 2024, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) published a significant security advisory regarding CVE-2024-0132, pinpointing a Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability affecting versions 1.16.1 and earlier of the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. This timely notification is...