CVE-2025-53152

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?

The word "Remote" in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to create a window and intentionally cause it to hang. This could be used to exploit the GhostWindow object use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the DWM process on the victim's system.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to have obtained low privileged code execution on target host first.