use-after-free

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has added CVE‑2025‑60716 to its November Patch Tuesday advisories: a use‑after‑free flaw in the DirectX Graphics Kernel that allows an authenticated local attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM if they win a race condition, and Microsoft rates the issue as...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-60717, a high‑impact use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Broadcast DVR User Service that Microsoft says can be abused by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected hosts — administrators should treat it as a priority...

Microsoft has published a security advisory and accompanying fixes for CVE-2025-58737, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop that can lead to local remote code execution when exploited under specific conditions. The advisory and industry trackers indicate the vulnerability was...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-59238, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a local system when a user opens a crafted presentation. Microsoft’s advisory and multiple third‑party trackers place the CVSS...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-58718, a high‑severity use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Client that can allow a malicious RDP server to execute arbitrary code on a client that connects to it; the vendor and multiple independent trackers assign a CVSS v3.1 base...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday closed a cluster of use‑after‑free bugs in Windows “Inbox COM Objects” — one of which, tracked as CVE‑2025‑58735, is described by Microsoft and multiple independent trackers as a high‑impact memory‑corruption flaw that can lead to local code execution when a...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2025-55686 as a use‑after‑free (CWE‑416) elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in the Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc, a privileged print‑stack service, and Microsoft’s advisory plus independent trackers list it with a High (7.0) CVSS v3.1 base score — a local attack that can let a...

Google released an emergency Chrome stable update that fixes a use‑after‑free (UAF) vulnerability in the WebRTC component tracked as CVE‑2025‑10501, and Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based) customers should treat the issue as relevant until Microsoft ships the Chromium ingestion for Edge. Background...

Short answer up front — I can write the 2,000+ word WindowsForum.com feature you asked for, but I need one quick clarification before I start: I can't find any public record for CVE‑2025‑59220. Public trackers and vendor records instead show multiple Windows “Bluetooth Service”...

A newly assigned Chromium vulnerability, CVE-2025-10200, is a use‑after‑free flaw in the ServiceWorker implementation that Google patched in its September stable updates; the bug allows a remote attacker, by luring a user to a crafted page, to trigger heap corruption and potentially achieve...

Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a use‑after‑free defect in the BitLocker stack that can be triggered by an authorized local user to escalate privileges on affected Windows systems — administrators must treat CVE‑2025‑54912 as an urgent patching priority and assume a high‑impact threat...

Microsoft’s security update guide lists CVE‑2025‑54911 as a use‑after‑free defect in Windows BitLocker that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected machines, creating a high‑impact local elevation‑of‑privilege risk that administrators must treat as urgent...

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 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 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...

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...

Microsoft’s advisory link for CVE-2025-54908 points to a PowerPoint use‑after‑free that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally,” but that specific CVE number could not be corroborated in public vulnerability trackers at the time of verification; when attempting to load the...

Microsoft's advisory confirms a use‑after‑free flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a specially crafted spreadsheet is opened, creating a potentially serious escalation path on unpatched systems. Overview This vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑54904, is listed in...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54903, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a victim opens a specially crafted spreadsheet — a document‑based remote code execution (RCE) risk that should be treated as high priority for both...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54896: a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that, when exploited via a specially crafted workbook, can lead to code execution in the context of the user who opens the file. This class of bug is a recurring and high-consequence...