Vulnerability · CVE-2025-62215
Microsoft Windows Race Condition Vulnerability
Published Nov 11, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2026 · Microsoft Windows
Patch now
CVE-2025-62215 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Dec 3, 2025. Confirm Microsoft Windows against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Gaps on this record
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- Severity
- High7.0
- Known exploitation
- CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 4.46%
- Remediation
- Remediation guidance
- Affected products
- cpe microsoft/windows 10 1809 · cpe microsoft/windows 10 21h2 · cpe microsoft/windows 10 22h2 · cpe microsoft/windows 11 23h2 · cpe microsoft/windows 11 24h2 · cpe microsoft/windows 11 25h2
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access.
Are you affected?
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- cpe microsoft/windows 10 1809version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows 10 21h2version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows 10 22h2version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows 11 23h2version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows 11 24h2version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows 11 25h2version unspecified
- cpe microsoft/windows server 2019version unspecified
- vendor Microsoft Windowsversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2025-62215
Recommended remediation
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. CISA due date Dec 3, 2025.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2025-62215 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Dec 3, 2025. Confirm Microsoft Windows against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-362: Race Condition; CWE-415: Double Free. EPSS 4.46%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. A public exploit reference is linked in Sources. That is not the same as confirmed exploitation. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Technology hubs
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Nov 11, 2025 · Catalog
Detected
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access.
Nov 12, 2025 · CISA KEV
Known exploited
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Dec 3, 2025 · CISA KEV
Remediation due
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Jun 17, 2026 · Catalog
Updated
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access.
Sources
- CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-62215
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access.
cisa.gov - CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-62215
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-62215
30-day exploitation probability 4.5%
first.org - Exploit DatabasePublic exploit reference52494
Public archive entry. The exploit body is not stored here.
exploit-db.com - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-62215
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
nvd.nist.gov - VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2025-62215
Microsoft Windows Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability that allows a local attacker with low-level privileges to escalate privileges. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could enable the attacker to gain SYSTEM-level access.
vulncheck.com
References
- VulnCheck exploitation evidence · api.msrc.microsoft.com
- VulnCheck exploitation evidence · docs.google.com
- CISA note · msrc.microsoft.com
- Vendor Advisory · msrc.microsoft.com
- CISA note · nvd.nist.gov
- VulnCheck exploitation evidence · research.checkpoint.com
- US Government Resource · cisa.gov
- VulnCheck exploitation evidence · cisa.gov
- VulnCheck exploitation evidence · recordedfuture.com
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.