Threats / Microsoft / CVE-2025-32709
CVE-2025-32709
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Microsoft Windows vulnerability
Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock contains a use-after-free vulnerability allowing authorized attackers to escalate privileges to administrator level.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A use-after-free flaw in Windows WinSock driver enables privilege escalation from authorized user to administrator. Active exploitation observed. Requires prior system access but grants full system control.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
5 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-05-13).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.01658 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Microsoft, Windows. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-416 Use After Free — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I gain initial access as an authorized user or through a prior compromise.
Business
Attacker establishes foothold with limited privileges on Windows system.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I trigger the use-after-free condition in the WinSock driver through crafted function calls.
Business
Vulnerability is activated through normal driver interaction patterns.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I escalate my privileges to administrator level by exploiting memory corruption.
Business
Attacker gains full system control and can modify, exfiltrate, or destroy data.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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