CVE-2025-21292
Microsoft Windows 10 1809 ≤ 10.0.17763.6775
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HSummary
CVE-2025-21292 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059); ranked in the top 46% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-21292 is a Windows Search Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, published on 2025-01-14T18:15:50.927. It affects the Windows Search Service component in Microsoft Windows operating systems and is associated with CWE-94 (Code Injection) and NVD-CWE-noinfo. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction, changed scope, and high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A local attacker with low-level privileges can exploit this vulnerability through the Windows Search Service. Exploitation requires low complexity and no user interaction. Successful attacks enable privilege escalation, allowing the attacker to achieve high impacts on system confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a scope change.
Microsoft's advisory provides guidance on this vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21292, where security practitioners can find details on patches and mitigation recommendations.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2357
Vulnerability Data
Windows Search Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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V1.3.1
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation finds code paths that accept and execute externally influenced strings.
Input validation directly stops untrusted data from being used to construct executable code without neutralization.
Least privilege limits the damage an injected code fragment can perform once executed.
Requiring documented secure development standards and tools enforces use of safe code-generation APIs and escaping.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly target injection flaws via secure coding and testing (mostly), yet as a single broad outcome it leaves many code-generation specifics unaddressed (partial).
PR.DS-10 protects runtime data confidentiality/integrity but has no bearing on neutralizing externally influenced input during code generation, so neither direction shows any preventive effect.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Banning unapproved code samples and unauthenticated web services, combined with secure-coding standards and SAST, prevents the dynamic generation or inclusion of attacker-supplied code.
Controls that restrict unauthorized or malicious code from being introduced via external networks or removable media limit opportunities for an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code.