Microsoft Windows up to Server 2025 Universal Plug/Play sensitive data storage in improperly locked memory
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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| 6.2 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Universal Plug/Play. Such manipulation leads to sensitive data storage in improperly locked memory. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-48819. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No exploit exists. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Windows and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Universal Plug/Play. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sensitive data storage in improperly locked memory vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-591. The product stores sensitive data in memory that is not locked, or that has been incorrectly locked, which might cause the memory to be written to swap files on disk by the virtual memory manager. This can make the data more accessible to external actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was disclosed 07/08/2025 as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is available at msrc.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-48819. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/16/2025).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at EUVD (EUVD-2025-20588) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1850). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.
Affected
- Xerox FreeFlow Print Server
Product
Type
Vendor
Name
Version
- 10
- 10 21H2
- 10 22H2
- 10 1607
- 10 1809
- 11 22H2
- 11 23H2
- 11 24H2
- Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Server 2008 SP2
- Server 2012
- Server 2012 R2
- Server 2016
- Server 2019
- Server 2022
- Server 2022 23H2
- Server 2025
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/
- Product: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.1VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.2
VulDB Base Score: 7.1
VulDB Temp Score: 6.2
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Vendor Base Score (Microsoft): 7.1
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Exploiting
Class: Sensitive data storage in improperly locked memoryCWE: CWE-591 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Partially
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Status: Unproven
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: PatchStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
07/08/2025 VulDB entry created07/08/2025 Advisory disclosed
07/08/2025 Countermeasure disclosed
08/16/2025 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comProduct: microsoft.com
Advisory: msrc.microsoft.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-48819 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-48819
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-315482
EUVD: 🔒
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2025-1850 - Xerox FreeFlow Print Server: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen nicht spezifizierten Angriff
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161215
Entry
Created: 07/08/2025 19:27Updated: 08/16/2025 20:32
Changes: 07/08/2025 19:27 (35), 07/08/2025 19:30 (34), 07/18/2025 20:57 (1), 08/16/2025 20:32 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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