CVE-2025-59194: Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Overview
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- Category
- Elevation of Privilege
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Exploitation Likelihood
- More Likely
- Patch Tuesday
- 2025-Oct
- Released
- 2025-10-14
- EPSS Score
- 0.13% (percentile: 32.9%)
Description
Use of uninitialized resource in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
FAQ
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to win a race condition.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially gain the ability to crash the system by exploiting the use-after-free vulnerability, even as a standard user.
Detection & Weaponization (1 sources)
Maturity: Exploit
- GitHub PoC: 1 repositories
Affected Products (11)
ESU
- Windows 11 Version 22H2 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems
Windows
- Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
- Windows 11 Version 23H2 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)
- Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems
- Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems
- Windows Server 2025
- Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 11 Version 25H2 for ARM64-based Systems
Security Updates (3)
Acknowledgments
Muhammad Faathin Abdurrahman
Revision History
- 2025-10-14: Information published.