CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-21191

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Apr 08, 2025 | Modified: Jul 07, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1507 Microsoft * 10.0.10240.20978 (excluding)
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.7969 (excluding)
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.7136 (excluding)
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19044.5737 (excluding)
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19045.5737 (excluding)
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22621.5189 (excluding)
Windows_11_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22631.5189 (excluding)
Windows_11_24h2 Microsoft * 10.0.26100.3775 (excluding)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft –sp2 (including) –sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2-sp1 (including) r2-sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.7969 (excluding)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.7136 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft * 10.0.20348.3453 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.25398.1551 (excluding)
Windows_server_2025 Microsoft * 10.0.26100.3775 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References