Summary
Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation, enabling a local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Feb 11, 2025
- Remediation due
- Mar 4, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-122
- EPSS
- 2.1% 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