Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-50159

High

Published: 12 August 2025

Published
12 August 2025
Modified
14 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0070 72.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-50159 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 27.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Use after free in Remote Access Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) EAP-TLS allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.21100 · ≤ 10.0.10240.21100
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.8330 · ≤ 10.0.14393.8330
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.7678 · ≤ 10.0.17763.7678
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.6216
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.6216
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.5768
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.5768
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.4851
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.8330
+4 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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References