Privilege Escalation
The latest Privilege Escalation coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
CVE-2025-55247: Microsoft Patches .NET Flaw Allowing Attackers to Gain Admin Rights
Microsoft has disclosed a significant security vulnerability in the .NET framework that could allow attackers to escalate privileges on affected systems. CVE-2025-55247, rated as important with a...
CVE-2025-55689: Critical Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc Vulnerability Explained
Microsoft has confirmed a serious security vulnerability in Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc that could allow attackers to escalate privileges on affected systems. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55689,...
Azure Arc Agent Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: Critical Patch Required
Microsoft has confirmed a critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine Agent that could allow attackers to gain local administrator privileges on affected systems. The...
PrintWorkflowUserSvc Vulnerabilities: Critical Windows Security Patch Guide
Microsoft's PrintWorkflowUserSvc service has emerged as a significant security concern in recent Windows updates, with multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities requiring immediate attention from...
Microsoft Flags Graphics Bug That Lets Attackers Grab System Control—Here’s Your Patching Plan
Microsoft’s latest security update addresses a race condition in the Windows graphics component that could allow an attacker with local access to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level. The...
Two Windows Bluetooth Flaws Could Give Attackers SYSTEM Access: Here’s What to Do
Microsoft has fixed two serious elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows Bluetooth Service that could be chained with other exploits to hand an attacker full control of an unpatched PC....
Siemens SIMOTION Flaw: Unpatched NSIS Installer Bug Grants Attackers SYSTEM Access on Windows
Siemens and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a coordinated advisory warning that several SIMOTION engineering tools contain a local privilege-escalation...
Patch Gap: Siemens SINAMICS S200 Drives Left Vulnerable as CISA Issues Warning on CVE-2025-40594
Siemens has disclosed a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in its widely‑deployed SINAMICS drive family that allows an attacker with local network access to trigger factory resets and alter...
BitLocker Kernel Flaw CVE-2025-54912 Lets Attackers Escalate to SYSTEM, Microsoft Urges Patching
Microsoft has confirmed a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Windows BitLocker stack, tracked as CVE-2025-54912, that could allow an authorized local attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges on...
Microsoft Fixes SQL Server Privilege Escalation Bug: The Real CVE Is 2025-53727, Not 55227
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CVE-2025-55224: Windows Win32K Race Condition Allows Hyper-V Escape and SYSTEM Access
A recently patched vulnerability in the Windows Win32K graphics subsystem allows an authenticated attacker—or a low-privileged process inside a Hyper-V virtual machine—to exploit a race condition...
Microsoft Patches Critical Type-Confusion Bug in Windows Defender Firewall Service (CVE-2025-54915)
Microsoft has released a patch for CVE-2025-54915, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service that exploits a type-confusion error. The flaw, described by...