Overview
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has identified a significant security flaw, designated CVE-2025-53725, in the Windows Push Notifications service. This flaw could potentially allow an authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges on a local system, leading to system compromise or data leakage. This vulnerability is particularly concerning due to the ubiquitous usage of Windows systems in various sectors, from businesses to individual users, making the potential impact widespread and severe.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-53725
Severity: High (7.8 out of 10)
Attack Vector: Local
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: Required
Impact: System compromise, potential data leakage
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Product | Affected Versions
Windows 10 | All versions prior to the latest patch
Windows Server 2019 | All versions prior to the latest patch
How the Exploit Works
The identified vulnerability, CVE-2025-53725, is a ‘type confusion’ vulnerability found in the Windows Push Notification service. ‘Type confusion’ refers to a condition where a resource may be accessed using an incompatible type, causing unexpected behavior within the system.
In this case, an attacker who has already gained low-level access to the system can exploit this vulnerability to trick the system into granting them elevated privileges. This would allow the attacker to execute commands or access resources that would normally be beyond their reach, potentially compromising the entire system or leading to data leakage.
Conceptual Example Code
The following pseudocode illustrates a conceptual exploit of the vulnerability:
// The attacker has low-level access and is able to run code
var lowPrivUser = new LowPrivUser();
// They create an object of a type that the system will confuse with a high privilege type
var maliciousObj = new MaliciousObj();
// They use the confused type to gain access to high privilege operations
lowPrivUser.executeAs(maliciousObj, () => {
// This code is now running with high privileges
system.accessProtectedResources();
});This conceptual example demonstrates how the attacker manipulates the type confusion vulnerability to escalate their privileges and potentially compromise the system.
