CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-29838

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 13, 2025 | Modified: May 19, 2025

CVSS 3.x

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29838
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Null pointer dereference in Windows Drivers allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Windows_11_24h2	Microsoft	*	10.0.26100.4061 (excluding)
Windows_server_2025	Microsoft	*	10.0.26100.4061 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29838

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