CVE-2025-24050
Published: 11 March 2025
Description
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24050 is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CWE-122, CWE-125) in the Windows Hyper-V role. It affects the Hyper-V hypervisor component on Windows systems. Published on 2025-03-11T17:16:27.273, the vulnerability has 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), indicating high impact potential.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability through low-complexity attacks (AC:L) requiring no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation on the host system, granting high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H).
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory provides details on patches and mitigation at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24050.
Details
- CWE(s)
Affected Products
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Heap-based buffer overflow in Hyper-V hypervisor directly enables local privilege escalation from low-privileged access on the host.