CVE-2025-62215
Published: 11 November 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-62215 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1809. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 14.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-4 (Information in Shared System Resources) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates the CVE by requiring timely installation of Microsoft patches that remediate the race condition and double free in the Windows Kernel.
Prevents unauthorized information transfer via shared kernel resources, directly addressing the improper synchronization in concurrent access that enables the race condition.
Limits the potential impact of local privilege escalation by enforcing least privilege for low-privilege attackers attempting to trigger the kernel vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE-2025-62215 is a Windows Kernel race condition (CWE-362) and double free (CWE-415) vulnerability explicitly enabling local privilege escalation from low privileges, directly mapping to T1068: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.
NVD Description
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-62215 is a race condition vulnerability (CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition); CWE-415: Double Free) in the Windows Kernel. Published on 2025-11-11T18:15:48.920, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.0 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The flaw arises from improper synchronization during concurrent access to a shared resource in the kernel, enabling local privilege escalation for authorized attackers.
A local attacker with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability by triggering the race condition, which requires high attack complexity (AC:H) but no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation grants high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromises (C:H/I:H/A:H) without changing scope (S:U), typically resulting in elevated privileges on the affected Windows system.
Microsoft's update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62215 details patches and mitigation steps. The vulnerability is also listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog at https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-62215, signaling active real-world exploitation.
Details
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 12 November 2025