Summary
Microsoft Windows Win32k contains an improper resource shutdown or release vulnerability that allows for local, authenticated privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Mar 3, 2025
- Remediation due
- Mar 24, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-404
- EPSS
- 22.3% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References