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CVE-2025-33073

8.8, high Known exploited

Microsoft Windows SMB Client Improper Access Control Vulnerability

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CVSS
8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
83% higher than 99.6% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
10 Jun 2025a year ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 20 Oct 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 10 Nov 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Improper access control in Windows SMB allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Details

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows 10 Version 1507
Weakness
CWE-284 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
secure@microsoft.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 4

Advisories 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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CVE-2025-33073 is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities: attackers are already exploiting it.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.