CVE-2025-32709
Null pointer dereference in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Severity
- 7.8 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 1.82%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 78.72% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- Yes
- In CISA's catalog since May 13, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-416 Use After Free
- Fix
- None yet
- No fixed version published
Description
Null pointer dereference in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
How to fix
No fixed version has been published yet. Until one is, remove or replace the package, or turn off or isolate the affected feature. This page updates when a fix ships.
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-416: Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
- Implementation: When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.
References
Advisories
Other links
Timeline
- Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Published
- Remediation due for U.S. federal agencies
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-109619 PHP has various global state that temporarily points into request memory. | Critical Known exploited | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| CVE-2026-109618 PHP uses longjmp() for out-of-memory (OOM) errors to exit the current context and abort handling of the request. | Critical Known exploited | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| GHSA-7mwm-ghpf-9vrm Pillow: Double free in ImagingScaleAffine on calloc failure via Image.transform | High | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| GHSA-4rr5-89j8-mwwm Pillow: Heap use-after-free when encoding TIFF to an in-memory buffer | High | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| GHSA-wq5f-xc86-pv6w sharp : Vulnerability in librsvg dependency CVE-2026-96889 | High | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| RUSTSEC-2026-0326 Rooting for GC values live across `try_call` may be missing, causing GC heap corruption | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| CVE-2026-68820 Use after free in Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. | High Known exploited | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
| GHSA-c494-m2fq-59mx Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-62898 – .NET Information Disclosure Vulnerability | High | Same weakness, CWE-416 |
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