CVE-2025-50168

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.78 % · percentile 56 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-08-12 17:10 UTC
Updated: 2026-02-26 17:49 UTC
Assigner: microsoft
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion') in Windows Win32K - ICOMP allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-843 — Type Confusion (Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type)
CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-50168

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	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	microsoft
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-24343
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-50168

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0687 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.22621.5768
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.22631.5768
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_24h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.26100.4851
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.25398.1791
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2025:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 10.0.26100.4851

Affected products

Product	Versions
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 22H2	affected 10.0.22621.0 < 10.0.22621.5768
Microsoft · Windows 11 version 22H3	affected 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.5768
Microsoft · Windows 11 Version 23H2	affected 10.0.22631.0 < 10.0.22631.5768
Microsoft · Windows 11 Version 24H2	affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.4946
Microsoft · Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)	affected 10.0.25398.0 < 10.0.25398.1791
Microsoft · Windows Server 2025	affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.4946
Microsoft · Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)	affected 10.0.26100.0 < 10.0.26100.4946

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD