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CVE-2025-59196:
vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A race condition vulnerability exists in Windows SSDP Service that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-59196 and was disclosed on October 14, 2025 (NVD, Microsoft).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') issue, identified as CWE-362. Microsoft has assigned it a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.0 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (NVD).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows an authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on the local system, potentially gaining higher levels of access to system resources and sensitive data (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability as part of their October 2025 Patch Tuesday updates. Users are advised to apply the latest security updates to affected systems (Microsoft).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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