Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-48818

Medium

Published: 08 July 2025

Published
08 July 2025
Modified
15 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0118 79.2th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-48818 is a medium-severity Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (CWE-367) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows BitLocker allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack.

CWE(s)
CWE-367

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.21073 · ≤ 10.0.10240.21073
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.8246 · ≤ 10.0.14393.8246
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.7558 · ≤ 10.0.17763.7558
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.6093
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.6093
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.5624
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.5624
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.4652
microsoft
windows server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.8246
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.7558
+3 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AU-8 Time Stamps
addresses: CWE-367

Timestamps meeting UTC or offset standards help identify TOCTOU issues through precise chronological reconstruction of check/use operations.

References