fkie_cve-2025-53788
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-08-12 18:15
Modified
2025-08-18 15:23
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
References
secure@microsoft.comhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53788Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_subsystem_for_linux *


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