CVE tracker / CVE-2025-29838
CVE-2025-29838
CVE-2025-29838 is the Windows ExecutionContext Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. Microsoft rates it Important, CVSS 7.4. It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Published May 13, 2025.
Risk summary
HighElevation of Privilege
7.4
CVSS v3 base
0.4%
EPSS: chance of exploitation in 30 days
High
Severity
Important
Microsoft's rating
Unlikely
Microsoft: exploitation
No
In CISA KEV
Microsoft describes it: “Null pointer dereference in Windows Drivers allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.”
How to fix it
Microsoft lists 4 affected products and the update that fixes each:
- KB5058411 · fixed build 10.0.26100.4061
Windows Server 2025, Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 24H2 for ARM64-based Systems, Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)
What Microsoft changed
- May 13, 2025: Information published.
Details
- Weakness
- CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
- Publicly disclosed (Microsoft)
- No
- Exploited (Microsoft)
- No
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- Not listed
- Published
- May 13, 2025
- Last revised
- May 13, 2025
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References
From Microsoft, CISA, NVD and FIRST data; the Microsoft details were read when this page was opened. Check the references above before you act.