vsp

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The tag vsp on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about Virtualization Service Providers (VSPs) in Microsoft Hyper-V, particularly in the context of security vulnerabilities. Recent threads focus on CVE-2025-54098, CVE-2025-54092, CVE-2025-53723, and CVE-2025-50167, which are privilege escalation flaws in Hyper-V that involve improper access control, race conditions, and numeric truncation errors. These vulnerabilities allow authorized local attackers to elevate privileges on Hyper-V hosts, management servers, or developer workstations. The content emphasizes the role of VSPs in host-guest integration and the need for patching to secure Hyper-V environments against local privilege escalation attacks.
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    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...
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    CVE-2025-54092: Windows Hyper-V race condition and local privilege escalation

    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...
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    CVE-2025-53723: Numeric Truncation in Hyper-V Elevates Privilege

    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...
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    CVE-2025-50167: Hyper-V Race Condition Elevates Privilege (Patch Now)

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE‑2025‑50167 warns that a race condition in Windows Hyper‑V can be abused by an authorized local attacker to elevate privileges on affected hosts — a kernel‑level flaw that demands immediate attention from administrators, cloud operators, and anyone running Hyper‑V...
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