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Description

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-09 | Published 2025-08-12 | Updated 2025-09-17 | Assigner microsoft




HIGH: 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Problem types

CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Product status

5.0.0.0 before 2.5.10
affected

References

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53788 (Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability) vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-53788)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-53788)

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