Microsoft security update for CVE-2025-27488 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products11
- Windows 10 HLK Version 22H2
- Windows 10 HLK version 20H2
- Windows 10 HLK version 21H1
- Windows 10 HLK version 21H2
- Windows 11 HLK 22H2
- Windows 11 HLK 24H2
- Windows HLK for Windows 10 version 2004
- Windows HLK for Windows Server 2019
- Windows HLK for Windows Server 2022
- Windows HLK for Windows Server 2025
- Windows HLK, version 1809
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 5 updates
5 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 10.1.26100.3478 |
| — | Security Update | 10.1.17763.7010 |
| — | Security Update | 10.1.19041.5609 |
| — | Security Update | 10.1.22621.5040 |
| — | Security Update | 10.1.20348.3330 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-27488
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.7 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Use of hard-coded credentials in Windows Hardware Lab Kit allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-27488, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).
🔗 References (7)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-27488
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2320012
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/what-s-new-in-the-hardware-lab-kit#whats-new-in-previous-releases
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2319329
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2320002
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2320114
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2320003