Local privilege escalation via management-service race
Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
Race condition in Windows Management Services on affected Microsoft Windows releases allows local users to elevate privileges. Microsoft identifies improper synchronization during concurrent use of a shared resource, but does not disclose the resource, code locus, or winning race sequence. Successful exploitation requires local low-privilege access and a high-complexity race, and grants elevated operating-system privileges.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Windows Management Services on affected Microsoft Windows releases allows local users to elevate privileges. Microsoft identifies improper synchronization during concurrent use of a shared resource, but does not disclose the resource, code locus, or winning race sequence. Successful exploitation requires local low-privilege access and a high-complexity race, and grants elevated operating-system privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-59193
- Published
- Oct 14, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows Server 2019
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.17763.0 <10.0.17763.7919
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