Microsoft Windows Race Condition Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-11-12 (federal deadline 2025-12-03).

First seen: 12 Nov 2025
Last update: 12 Nov 2025, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2025-62215
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: Windows

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## Microsoft Windows Race Condition Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Microsoft Windows
Ids: CVE-2025-62215

Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-11-12 (federal deadline 2025-12-03).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (windows). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2025-62215") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62215 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62215
https://pwned.coffee/i/microsoft-windows-race-condition-vulnerability-cve-2025-62215

Sources

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