CVE-2025-29812 (GCVE-0-2025-29812)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-08 17:24
Modified
2025-06-04 17:53
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-822 - Untrusted Pointer Dereference
Summary
Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows Kernel Memory allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Version: 10.0.20348.0   < 10.0.20348.3453
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