CVE-2025-24983 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem caused by a use-after-free condition. The flaw allows a locally authenticated attacker with low privileges to trigger memory corruption in kernel context and elevate privileges. Microsoft assessed exploitation as requiring the attacker to win a race condition, which increases attack complexity, but successful exploitation can result in execution with SYSTEM privileges. The vulnerability was reported as exploited in the wild at the time of disclosure.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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A Windows Win32 kernel subsystem elevation-of-privilege vulnerability described as requiring no user interaction and highlighted as a severe March 2025 exploited-in-the-wild issue.
A Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem elevation of privilege vulnerability reported as exploited and weaponized by malware.
A Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that Microsoft reports as exploited in the wild.
A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows kernel, used in conjunction with the PipeMagic backdoor to facilitate ransomware deployment.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.