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CVE-2025-58727VulnerabilityPublished Updated

CVE-2025-58727: Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2 · Race Condition

Affects Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.0 High.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.0High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 9% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Oct 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Microsoft Windows 10 Version 21H2Affected
  • =10.0.19044.0
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

1. Monitor Microsoft security advisories closely for the release of official patches addressing CVE-2025-58727 and apply them promptly once available. 2. Restrict local user permissions to the minimum necessary, avoiding granting administrative privileges to standard users. 3. Implement strict access controls and auditing on systems running Windows 10 Version 21H2 to detect unusual privilege escalation attempts. 4. Employ application whitelisting and endpoint protection solutions that can prevent unauthorized code execution and detect suspicious behavior related to race conditions. 5. Limit the number of users with local access to critical systems and enforce strong authentication mechanisms. 6. Conduct regular security training to raise awareness about the risks of local privilege escalation and encourage reporting of suspicious activity. 7. Consider isolating critical systems or using virtualization/containerization to reduce the attack surface. 8. Use system integrity monitoring tools to detect unauthorized changes that may result from exploitation attempts.

Description

Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Connected Devices Platform Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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