CVE-2025-26688 Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An authorized local attacker can exploit a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk to elevate privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-26688?
CVE-2025-26688 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507, published on 8 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Virtual Hard Drive allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Weakness: CWE-121
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-26688?
It affects 14 products.
Products include Microsoft Windows 10 1507, Microsoft Windows 10 1607, Microsoft Windows 10 1809, Microsoft Windows 10 21h2, Microsoft Windows 10 22h2, Microsoft Windows 11 22h2 and 8 more.
How do I fix CVE-2025-26688?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-26688 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2025-26688 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26688 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2025-33073 Microsoft Windows SMB Client Improper Access Control
- CVE-2024-49039 Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2024-43461 Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4j9p-mgjx-whjq.