Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2025-24983 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem (rated Important, CVSS 7.0). Microsoft reports that it is being exploited.
Exploited1 version
Facts
- Microsoft id
CVE-2025-24983- Status
- Exploited
- Products
- Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem
- Severity
- Important
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- CVSS
- 7.0
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
- Exploited
- Yes
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Exploitability
- Exploitation Detected
- Customer action required
- Yes
- Release
- 2025-Mar
- Assigned by
- Microsoft
- Weakness
- CWE-416: Use After Free
- MSRC revision
- 1.0
- First captured by us
- (from our first import of this list)
- Microsoft last modified
- Source
- Security updates · open the original at Microsoft
Microsoft's revision notes
- Revision 1.0, 2025-03-11:
Information published.
Microsoft says
Use after free in Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
What Microsoft changed
One version so far. If Microsoft edits it, each change shows here with what was removed and added.
First version we captured ·
As first seen: Exploited
- Status
- Exploited
Seen by us · Microsoft's timestamp · Microsoft's page