Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21359

High

Published: 11 February 2025

Published
11 February 2025
Modified
28 February 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 0.0012 31.2th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Windows Kernel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21359 is a Windows Kernel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability, published on 2025-02-11T18:15:34.743. It affects the Windows Kernel component and carries 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). The vulnerability is associated with CWE-284 and NVD-CWE-noinfo.

A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability through a low-complexity attack (AC:L) that requires no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation enables the attacker to bypass kernel security features, achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) within the unchanged scope (S:U).

The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory provides details on mitigation and patches at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21359.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-284NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20915 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20915
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7785 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7785
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6893 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6893
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5487
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5487
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4890
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4890
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.3194
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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