Local privilege escalation via shared-resource race
Published May 13, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
A race condition in Microsoft Universal Print Management Service allows local users with low privileges to elevate privileges on affected Windows systems. The service fails to synchronize concurrent access to a shared resource, but Microsoft has not disclosed the resource, code path, or precise operation involved. Exploitation requires existing low-privilege local access and winning a high-complexity race; the resulting privilege boundary is not specified.
Summary
What happened
A race condition in Microsoft Universal Print Management Service allows local users with low privileges to elevate privileges on affected Windows systems. The service fails to synchronize concurrent access to a shared resource, but Microsoft has not disclosed the resource, code path, or precise operation involved. Exploitation requires existing low-privilege local access and winning a high-complexity race; the resulting privilege boundary is not specified.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-29841
- Published
- May 13, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
- Classifications
- CWE-416, CWE-362, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 13, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.26100.0 <10.0.26100.4061
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