CVE-2025-26649

Summary

CVE-2025-26649 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting Windows Secure Channel. This issue permits an authorized attacker to exploit a race condition, a type of concurrent execution problem, to gain elevated privileges locally. The vulnerability arises due to improper synchronization of shared resources within the Secure Channel component. An attacker who successfully exploits this condition can escalate their access, potentially leading to significant security implications. It is recommended that affected systems are patched promptly to mitigate this risk.

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