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Microsoft released fixes for 63 vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including five rated critical and one actively exploited zero-day. The exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-62215, is a Windows kernel double-free race condition that enables local privilege escalation to SYSTEM without user interaction, according to Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and CSIRT.SK reporting.
The November 2025 updates also addressed additional high-severity issues spanning Windows, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, Microsoft Graphics Component (GDI+), and Nuance PowerScribe 360, with impacts including remote code execution, information disclosure, and privilege escalation. Security advisories for vulnerabilities including CVE-2025-60716 and CVE-2025-62215 were published through Microsoft’s update channels, and defenders were urged to deploy the patches promptly because one flaw was already being exploited in the wild.
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Microsoft's November 2025 Patch Tuesday fixed CVE-2025-62215, a Windows kernel double-free race condition vulnerability that allows local privilege escalation to SYSTEM without user interaction. CSIRT.SK reported the flaw was being actively exploited as a zero-day at the time of the update release.
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