Overview

This report focuses on a newly discovered vulnerability, CVE-2025-53800, found within the Microsoft Graphics Component. This vulnerability allows an authorized attacker to escalate their privileges locally, posing a significant risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems. This issue is of particular concern for organizations and individuals that heavily rely on Microsoft products for their operations, as this vulnerability could lead to potential system compromise or data leakage.

Vulnerability Summary

CVE ID: CVE-2025-53800
Severity: High (CVSS: 7.8)
Attack Vector: Local
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: Required
Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to local privilege escalation, potentially compromising the system and leading to data leakage.

Affected Products

Product | Affected Versions

Microsoft Graphics Component | All versions up to the latest

How the Exploit Works

The CVE-2025-53800 exploit takes advantage of a flaw in the Microsoft Graphics Component. An attacker with authorized access can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted requests to the system. This could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system.

Conceptual Example Code

Here is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited:

# This is a conceptual example and may not work in a real-world scenario
$script = @{
"payload" = @{
"code" = "arbitrary_code"
}
}
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://localhost/vulnerable/endpoint" -Method POST -Body ($script | ConvertTo-Json) -ContentType "application/json"

In this conceptual example, the attacker sends a POST request with a payload containing arbitrary code to the vulnerable endpoint. If successful, the arbitrary code is executed with the privileges of the current user.

Recommended Mitigation

To mitigate the risk posed by this vulnerability, users are advised to apply the latest vendor-supplied patches. Until the patch can be applied, it is recommended to implement a web application firewall (WAF) or intrusion detection system (IDS) as a temporary measure to detect and block malicious activities.