vulnerability

Microsoft Windows: CVE-2025-24084: Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) Kernel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 11, 2025
Added
Mar 11, 2025
Modified
Sep 17, 2025

Description

Untrusted pointer dereference in Windows Subsystem for Linux allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Solutions

microsoft-windows-windows_11-22h2-kb5053602microsoft-windows-windows_11-23h2-kb5053602microsoft-windows-windows_11-24h2-kb5053598microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-21h2-kb5053603microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-22h2-kb5053603microsoft-windows-windows_server_2022-23h2-kb5053599microsoft-windows-windows_server_2025-24h2-kb5053598
Title
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