By Zeljka Zorz
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 11:08:00
Microsoft has delivered a rather light load of patches for November 2025 Patch Tuesday: some 60+ vulnerabilities have received a fix, among them an actively exploited Windows Kernel flaw (CVE-2025-62215).
CVE-2025-62215
CVE-2025-62215 is a memory corruption issue that stems from “concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization (‘race condition’) in Windows Kernel”, which that allows local elevation of privileges (to SYSTEM).
Exploitation in the wild was flagged by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and its Security Response Center (MSRC), likely in limited attacks, since exploit code is functional but not widely available.
“It’s also interesting to note there’s a race condition here, and it shows that some race conditions are more reliable than others. Bugs like these are often paired with a code execution bug by malware to completely take over a system,” noted Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend…
