Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21338

High

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
21 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0053 67.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

GDI+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21338 is a GDI+ Remote Code Execution vulnerability, published on 2025-01-14, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). It is associated with CWE-190 and affects the GDI+ graphics component in Microsoft Windows systems.

The vulnerability can be exploited by a local attacker who has low privileges on the target system. Exploitation requires low complexity and no user interaction, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected process, with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Microsoft's advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21338 provides details on patches and mitigation steps for addressing this vulnerability.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-190NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft
office
2021, 2024 · ≤ 2.93.24123014 · ≤ 16.0.14326.22175 · ≤ 16.0.18429.20000
microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20890 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20890
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7699 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7699
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6775 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6775
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5371
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5371
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4751
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4751
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2894
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
+6 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

References