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Race conditions occur when multiple concurrent requests exploit the brief time gap between checking a condition and acting upon it (TOCTOU - Time of Check, Time of Use).

How It Works

Race conditions occur when multiple concurrent requests exploit the brief time gap between checking a condition and acting upon it (TOCTOU - Time of Check, Time of Use). An attacker sends nearly simultaneous requests to manipulate shared state before the application can enforce its business logic. For example, when redeeming a gift voucher, Request A checks the balance, Request B also checks while A is processing, then both complete successfully—redeeming the voucher twice.

Attackers use specialized techniques to achieve precise timing. HTTP/2's multiplexing allows 20-30 requests in a single TCP packet, arriving virtually simultaneously at the server. For HTTP/1.1, "last-byte synchronization" holds back the final byte of multiple requests, then releases them together. These methods reduce network jitter to microseconds, maximizing collision probability.

Advanced attacks include multi-endpoint collisions (hitting different API paths that share state), exploiting partial object construction (accessing resources before initialization completes), and single-endpoint confusion (causing a function to process stale state by overwhelming it with requests).

Impact

  • Financial fraud: Redeeming coupons multiple times, withdrawing beyond account balance, applying discounts repeatedly
  • Authentication bypass: Reusing CAPTCHA tokens, bypassing rate limits on login attempts, exploiting session validation gaps
  • Resource exhaustion: Claiming limited inventory multiple times, booking the same seat/room concurrently
  • Data corruption: Simultaneous writes creating inconsistent database states, inventory counts becoming negative
  • Access control violations: Exploiting privilege checks to access unauthorized resources during state transitions

Real-World Examples

In 2019, security researchers demonstrated race conditions in major e-commerce platforms allowing users to purchase items at massive discounts by applying the same promotional code dozens of times within milliseconds. The applications checked voucher validity but didn't atomically mark them as used.

TOCTOU vulnerabilities have been found in cryptocurrency exchanges where concurrent withdrawal requests could drain more funds than an account held. Attackers automated HTTP/2 packet timing to submit multiple withdrawal requests before the balance update propagated, essentially duplicating money.

File upload race conditions have enabled remote code execution when attackers upload malicious files and execute them before security scanners complete validation-the check happens, but the file runs before removal.

Mitigation

  • Database transactions with row-level locking: Wrap check-and-update logic in ACID transactions with SELECT FOR UPDATE
  • Idempotency keys: Require unique request identifiers; reject duplicates within a time window
  • Uniqueness constraints: Database-level UNIQUE constraints on critical fields (voucher redemptions, order IDs)
  • Atomic operations: Use database built-ins like DECREMENT with bounds checking, compare-and-swap primitives
  • Application-level mutexes: Distributed locks (Redis, memcached) around critical sections, ensuring single execution
  • Rate limiting per resource: Throttle requests per user AND per target resource (not just per IP)
  • Sequence validation: Check monotonically increasing counters or nonces to detect concurrent modification

Recent CVEs (2128)

EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Microsoft's Windows Network File System (NFS) server role affects a broad range of Windows client and server builds from Windows Server 2012 through Windows Server 2025 and Windows 10/11. An unauthenticated network attacker who wins a race condition in a shared NFS resource can execute arbitrary code on the target. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC rates exploitation as none; EPSS is low at 0.64% (47th percentile), consistent with the high attack complexity of racing the vulnerable code path.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH Exploit Likely This Week

Remote code execution in the Microsoft Windows network driver affects a broad range of Windows client and server builds (Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1, and Windows Server 2012 through Windows Server 2025), where a race condition (CWE-362) in the shared network driver lets an unauthenticated network attacker who wins a timing window run arbitrary code with full system impact. Microsoft has shipped fixes and rates it 8.1 with high attack complexity; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC lists exploitation status as none, though the flaw is assessed as automatable with total technical impact. The EPSS probability is low (1.00%, 59th percentile), consistent with the high-complexity, not-yet-exploited profile.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in Windows Runtime (WinRT) across Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019 through 2025 allows an already-authenticated attacker to win a race condition and gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The flaw stems from concurrent access to a shared resource without proper synchronization, and full C:H/I:H/A:H impact indicates complete host compromise once triggered. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Media component of Windows 11 (versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1) lets an already-authenticated, low-privileged user win a race condition to elevate to higher privileges on the local machine. Reported by Microsoft and carrying CVSS 7.0, it has an SSVC technical impact of 'total' but an SSVC exploitation status of 'none' and a low EPSS of 0.24% (16th percentile); a vendor patch is available and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Telephony Service (TAPI) affects a broad range of Microsoft Windows client and server releases, from Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2012 through Server 2025. A local, low-privileged attacker who wins a race condition (CWE-362) in the service's handling of a shared resource can corrupt state and elevate to higher privileges, gaining full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the host. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV; EPSS was not provided.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.0
HIGH POC PATCH Exploit Likely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows NTFS file system driver lets an authenticated low-privileged user win a race condition (CWE-362) to gain SYSTEM-level rights across nearly all supported Windows client and server builds, from Windows 10 1607 and Server 2012 through Windows 11 26H1 and Server 2025. Microsoft has shipped fixes and publicly available exploit code exists, though EPSS rates near-term mass exploitation modestly at 2.16% (80th percentile) and CISA's SSVC framework records no observed exploitation, indicating opportunistic rather than widespread abuse. The high AC:H reflects the timing-dependent nature of the flaw, which reduces reliability but does not eliminate risk on multi-user or shared hosts.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Runtime (WinRT) affects current Microsoft platforms including Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, 26H1, and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) in the handling of a shared resource lets an already-authenticated local user win a timing window to gain higher privileges. Microsoft has released a patch, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. With a CVSS 7.0 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L) the flaw requires local access and precise timing, making it a plausible second-stage escalation rather than an initial entry point.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) Service affects all supported Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server builds (2019 through 2025), where a race condition (CWE-362) in access to a shared resource lets an already-authenticated local user win a timing window to gain higher privileges. Microsoft rates it CVSS 7.0 with total technical impact (SSVC), but exploitation requires high attack complexity and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. EPSS is low (0.16%, 5th percentile), consistent with the difficulty of reliably winning the race.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Runtime affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) in the improperly synchronized handling of a shared resource lets an already-authenticated attacker win a timing window to gain higher privileges. Microsoft reported and patched the issue; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. The CVSS 8.8 with scope-changed impact reflects that a low-privileged local user could reach full SYSTEM-level control of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in Windows Key Guard affects all supported Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server releases (Server 2019 through 2025), where a race condition in the synchronization of a shared resource lets an already-authenticated local user win a timing window to elevate to higher privileges. Microsoft has released patches and rates it Important (CVSS 7.0); there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC records exploitation status as none, though the technical impact is rated total. EPSS is low at 0.24% (16th percentile), consistent with a high-complexity local flaw rather than a widely-scanned remote target.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Runtime component of Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 allows an already-authenticated local attacker to win a race condition and gain higher privileges. The flaw was reported by Microsoft, which has released a patch; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. The high CVSS complexity (AC:H) reflects that the attacker must reliably win a timing window, tempering real-world exploitability despite the full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability once triggered.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Elevation of privilege in Microsoft Windows Runtime (WinRT) lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker win a timing window in a shared-resource race condition and gain higher privileges across a broad range of Windows client and server releases (Windows 10 1809 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2019/2022/2025). Microsoft-reported and patched, the flaw carries CVSS 8.1, driven by full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact but tempered by high attack complexity. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Elevation of privilege in the Windows Media component of Windows 11 (versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1) allows an authorized attacker to win a race condition and gain higher privileges over a network. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 7.5 with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, though the high attack complexity reflects the timing precision needed to exploit the flaw. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Elevation of privilege in Microsoft's Windows Media component affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) lets an already-authenticated attacker win a timing window to gain higher privileges over the network. Microsoft (the reporter) has shipped fixes and rates impact as total loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA's SSVC marks exploitation status as none. EPSS is low (0.47%, 38th percentile), consistent with a patched, non-trivial-to-exploit flaw rather than an imminent mass-exploitation threat.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Elevation of privilege in the Windows Media component of Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 allows an authenticated attacker to win a race condition and gain higher privileges over a network, with total loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The flaw was reported by Microsoft and a patch is available; SSVC currently rates exploitation as none and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Note a data conflict: the description characterizes this as network privilege escalation while vendor tags label it 'Information Disclosure' - verify intended impact with the MSRC advisory.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows via the LUAFV (LUA File Virtualization, luafv.sys) driver allows an already-authenticated low-privileged user to win a timing race and elevate to SYSTEM/administrator on affected Windows client and server builds. The flaw stems from improper synchronization around a shared resource (CWE-362) and carries a CVSS 7.0 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L) reflecting a local, high-complexity attack. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but Microsoft has released a patch.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege elevation in the Windows Media component of Windows 11 (versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1) allows an already-authenticated local attacker to win a race condition and gain higher privileges on the host. The flaw is a concurrency/synchronization defect (CWE-362) reported by Microsoft itself; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. Exploitation is rated high-complexity because the attacker must reliably win a timing window, which tempers the otherwise high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 lets an already-authenticated, low-privileged attacker win a race condition (CWE-362) over an improperly synchronized shared resource to elevate privileges. Reported by Microsoft itself, the flaw carries a CVSS 7.0 and per SSVC has total technical impact but is not automatable and shows no observed exploitation; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis. EPSS is low at 0.24% (16th percentile), consistent with the high attack complexity of reliably timing the race.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Runtime (WinRT) affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) in the handling of a shared resource allows an already-authenticated low-privileged attacker to win a timing window and elevate to higher privileges. Exploitation requires winning a non-deterministic race (AC:H) and low-level access to the target host (PR:L, AV:L), and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. Microsoft has published an advisory and released a patch.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Runtime (WinRT) component of Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 allows an authenticated local attacker to win a race condition and gain higher privileges. The flaw stems from improper synchronization of a shared resource (CWE-362); successful exploitation yields high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV; Microsoft has released a patch.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege elevation in the Windows Runtime (WinRT) component of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019-2025 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to win a race condition and gain elevated privileges over the network. Reported by Microsoft with a vendor patch available; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low (0.33%, 25th percentile) and CISA SSVC records exploitation status as none, though technical impact is rated total.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Elevation of privilege in the Windows Runtime (WinRT) component of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server allows an unauthorized network attacker to win a race condition and gain elevated privileges, achieving full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The flaw affects a broad range of supported builds - Windows 10 (1809/21H2/22H2), Windows 11 (24H2/25H2/26H1), and Windows Server 2019/2022/2025 - and Microsoft has shipped patches. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and CISA/SSVC records no known exploitation, though the low CVSS attack complexity of winning the race is offset by the high technical impact.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Microsoft Windows USB driver stack lets an already-authenticated low-privileged user win a race condition (CWE-362) to gain SYSTEM-level control across Windows 10 (1607-22H2), Windows 11 (24H2/25H2/26H1), and Windows Server 2012 through 2025. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. EPSS is low (0.19%, 9th percentile) and SSVC rates exploitation as none but technical impact as total, indicating high damage potential if a working exploit is developed.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Audio Service on Windows 11 (versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1) lets a low-privileged local user win a race condition (CWE-362) to gain full SYSTEM-level control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The flaw was reported by Microsoft, which has released a fix; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and CISA's SSVC framework records exploitation as 'none' despite the 'total' technical impact. EPSS is low at 0.19% (9th percentile), consistent with the high attack complexity of exploiting a timing window.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Clip Service (clipboard/cloud clipboard component, cbdhsvc) affects a broad range of Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019-2025 builds, where a race condition in concurrent access to a shared resource lets an already-authenticated local attacker win a timing window to gain higher privileges. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. Note a source conflict: the description and CWE describe privilege elevation with high confidentiality/integrity/availability impact, while the intelligence tags label it 'Information Disclosure' - treat the primary impact as local EoP per the CVSS vector.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Microsoft Windows App Store (AppX/package deployment component) allows an authorized, low-privileged user to win a race condition and gain higher privileges on affected Windows client and server builds spanning Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2016 through 2025. Exploitation requires local access and already-held low privileges, and the high attack complexity reflects the timing precision needed to win the race. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but Microsoft has released a patch.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +14
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Kernel affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) in the synchronization of a shared kernel resource lets an authenticated low-privileged local user win a timing window to gain higher privileges. The CVSS 3.1 score is 7.8 with a scope-changed vector, the flaw was reported by Microsoft, and a patch is available. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows AppX Deployment Service (AppXSvc) lets an already-authenticated, low-privileged user win a race condition to elevate to higher privileges across a broad range of Windows client and server builds (Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1, and Windows Server 2012 through 2025). The flaw stems from improper synchronization of a shared resource, and successful exploitation yields full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the host. It is reported by Microsoft with a vendor patch available; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows USB Print Driver affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (improper synchronization of a shared resource) lets an already-authenticated local user win a timing window to execute code at elevated privilege. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV. The high CVSS attack complexity (AC:H) reflects that the attacker must reliably win a narrow race, which tempers real-world exploitability.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows USB Print Driver on Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 allows an already-authenticated local user to win a timing race and elevate to SYSTEM-level privileges. The flaw is a race condition (CWE-362) reported by Microsoft; a vendor patch is available, and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Exploitation is constrained by high attack complexity (winning the race window) but yields full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact once achieved.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Clipboard Server (Windows 10 1809 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2019 through 2025) allows an already-authenticated low-privileged user to win a race condition and gain higher privileges on the host. Microsoft credits its own researchers and has shipped a fix; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the CVSS base score is 7.0 (High). The high attack complexity reflects the timing precision needed to exploit the race, which meaningfully limits reliable weaponization.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Push Notifications component (WPN) affects Windows 11 (23H2, 24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 including Server Core, where a race condition (CWE-362) lets an authorized local user win a timing window on a shared resource to run code at a higher privilege level. Microsoft reported the issue and has released a patch; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. Note a signal conflict: the description and CVSS impact frame this as privilege elevation, while the vendor tags also list 'Information Disclosure' - the primary impact should be treated as EoP pending vendor clarification.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +6
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Remote code execution in the Windows Print Spooler components stems from an improperly synchronized race condition (CWE-362) that an authenticated, network-adjacent attacker can win to run code with full system impact. Microsoft (the reporter) has shipped fixes across the entire supported Windows and Windows Server line, but exploitation requires low privileges and a hard-to-hit timing window, so this is a real-but-non-trivial priority rather than a drop-everything emergency. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low at 0.53% (41st percentile), and CISA SSVC scores exploitation as none.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Remote code execution in the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP networking stack allows an unauthenticated attacker on the same physical or logical network segment to win a race condition and run arbitrary code on the target. The flaw spans a broad range of desktop and server builds from Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1 and Windows Server 2012 through Server 2025. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but Microsoft has confirmed the issue and shipped a patch, and the high CVSS (8.8) plus network-facing kernel component make it a priority to remediate.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows USB Print Driver affecting Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 lets an already-authenticated, low-privileged user win a race condition (CWE-362) in the driver to gain higher privileges. Microsoft has released a patch and reported the flaw itself; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The high attack complexity (AC:H) reflects the timing-dependent nature of exploiting the shared-resource synchronization defect.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Win32K kernel-mode subsystem allows an already-authenticated attacker to win a race condition (CWE-362) and elevate to SYSTEM-level privileges across supported Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019-2025 builds. Reported by Microsoft with a vendor patch available; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low (0.16%, 5th percentile). CVSS 7.0 reflects high attack complexity (AC:H) driven by the timing-window nature of the flaw and the requirement for existing low-privilege access (PR:L).

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Win32K kernel-mode subsystem allows an authenticated low-privileged user to win a race condition and elevate to SYSTEM across Windows 10, Windows 11 (through 26H1), and Windows Server 2012 through 2025. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available, it carries CVSS 7.0 but a high attack complexity (AC:H) reflecting the timing-sensitive nature of the flaw. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is low (0.19%, 9th percentile), consistent with CISA SSVC rating exploitation as 'none.'

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows USB Print Driver affects Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025, where a race condition (CWE-362) in the handling of a shared resource lets an already-authenticated local user win a timing window to execute code at higher privilege. Rated CVSS 7.0 with high attack complexity, it requires low privileges and no user interaction, yielding full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, SSVC exploitation status is 'none', and EPSS is low at 0.19% (9th percentile), consistent with a Microsoft-reported, patch-first disclosure.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows USB Print Driver on Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 lets an already-authenticated low-privileged user win a timing race in the driver to gain elevated privileges. Reported by Microsoft with a patch available; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. The high attack complexity (must reliably win a race window) tempers real-world exploitability despite full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Microsoft Windows App Store component (Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1, and Windows Server 2016 through 2025) allows an authorized low-privileged attacker to win a race condition on an improperly synchronized shared resource and gain higher privileges. Exploitation is local-only and high-complexity because it depends on reliably hitting a narrow timing window, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis. A vendor patch is available via Microsoft's MSRC update guide.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +14
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in Windows App Installer (App Installer / MSIX handler) on Windows 11 (23H2 through 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 lets an already-authenticated local attacker win a timing race to elevate to higher privileges. The flaw stems from improper synchronization of a shared resource during concurrent execution, and Microsoft has released a patch. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +6
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege elevation in the Windows App Store component affects a broad range of Microsoft Windows client and server releases (Windows 10 1607 through Windows 11 26H1, and Windows Server 2016 through 2025), where a race condition (CWE-362) lets an unauthorized attacker win a timing window to gain elevated privileges over a network. The CVSS 3.1 score is 8.1 with a network vector and no authentication (PR:N), but high attack complexity (AC:H) reflects the difficulty of reliably winning the race. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; a vendor patch is available from Microsoft.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +14
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial-of-service in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series devices lets an unauthenticated, network-based attacker exhaust the packet forwarding engine (PFE) by exploiting a race condition in stateful flow teardown. When the race is hit, a flow's timeout is mis-set to a very high value (>10,000s instead of 3s), so sessions are never reaped, invalidated sessions accumulate without bound, and the device eventually stops forwarding or hits a flowd core and reboots. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV; exploitation is probabilistic because the triggering conditions are outside the attacker's control.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Juniper +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome's GetUserMedia (WebRTC media capture) implementation allows an attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the browser sandbox by exploiting a race condition via a crafted HTML page, affecting all desktop Chrome builds prior to 150.0.7871.115. Rated High by Chromium and scored CVSS 8.3, this is a second-stage exploitation primitive typically chained after an initial renderer RCE; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. A vendor patch is available in the 150.0.7871.115 Stable channel release.

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

## Summary Remote code execution and denial of service in FreeRDP before 3.22.0 stem from a use-after-free in the dynamic virtual channel manager (drdynvc), where `dvcman_channel_close` and `dvcman_call_on_receive` access `channel_callback` without proper synchronization (CWE-362). A malicious or compromised RDP server can race DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE messages to free a channel callback while another thread still uses it, corrupting the client heap. This is a client-side flaw affecting anyone connecting to an attacker-controlled server; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV. ## Technical Context FreeRDP is a widely used open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, embedded in clients such as Remmina, GNOME Connections, Weston, and numerous commercial and VDI products. The bug lives in the drdynvc (Dynamic Virtual Channel) subsystem, which multiplexes optional channels (clipboard, audio, device redirection, etc.) over the RDP connection and processes them on a dedicated client thread. Per CWE-362 (concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization / race condition), `dvcman_channel_close` (handling DYNVC_CLOSE) can free the `channel_callback` structure while `dvcman_call_on_receive` (handling DYNVC_DATA) is concurrently dereferencing it, producing a heap use-after-free. Because the RDP server dictates the timing and ordering of DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE PDUs, a hostile server controls the race window. ## Risk Assessment The published CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H) yields 8.3 (High), driven mainly by high availability impact with lower confidentiality/integrity impact — consistent with a heap corruption that reliably crashes the client (DoS) but only potentially yields RCE. AC:H correctly reflects that success depends on winning a non-deterministic thread race, which is unreliable and may require many attempts. There is no EPSS score, no KEV listing, and no confirmed public POC in the provided data, so exploitation pressure is currently low-to-unknown; the RCE and Denial Of Service tags reflect potential impact, not observed attacks. One nuance to verify: the vector uses UI:N/PR:N, but this is a client-side vulnerability requiring the victim to connect to a malicious server — a real-world limiting factor that raw CVSS understates. Net: a legitimate patch priority for fleets whose users connect to untrusted or reachable RDP endpoints, but not an emergency mass-exploitation scenario given AC:H and no evidence of exploitation. ## Affected Products FreeRDP (the open-source RDP client/library and its FreeRDP-based clients) at all versions prior to 3.22.0 are affected; the flaw is fixed in FreeRDP 3.22.0. No CPE strings were provided in the input, so exact downstream package ranges (e.g., distribution builds of Remmina or the freerdp2/freerdp3 packages) should be confirmed against vendor trackers. Authoritative details are in the FreeRDP GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h (https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h) and the VulnCheck advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-use-after-free-via-race-condition-in-drdynvc-channel-callback). ## Remediation Vendor-released patch: FreeRDP 3.22.0 — upgrade all FreeRDP libraries and any FreeRDP-based clients (Remmina, GNOME Connections, xrdp clients, etc.) to 3.22.0 or later, rebuilding or updating downstream distribution packages that bundle the library. Until patched, reduce exposure by only connecting to trusted, known-good RDP servers and avoiding connections to untrusted or attacker-influenced hosts, since the malicious behavior originates server-side; where feasible, restrict outbound RDP (TCP 3389) from client machines to an allowlist of approved servers via egress firewall rules (trade-off: breaks ad-hoc connections to new servers). If specific dynamic virtual channels are not required, disabling optional channel redirections (clipboard, drive, audio) narrows the attack surface of drdynvc but does not fully eliminate the race and reduces functionality. Follow guidance in GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h (https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/security/advisories/GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h) and the VulnCheck advisory (https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/freerdp-use-after-free-via-race-condition-in-drdynvc-channel-callback). ## Exploit Scenario An attacker stands up or compromises an RDP server and lures a victim into connecting with a vulnerable FreeRDP client (e.g., via a malicious .rdp file, phishing link, or a man-in-the-middle position). Once connected, the server rapidly interleaves DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE messages on a dynamic virtual channel to win the race and trigger the heap use-after-free in the client's drdynvc thread, crashing the client or, with careful heap grooming, potentially executing code in the client process. No public POC is identified at this time, and the AC:H race condition makes reliable code execution difficult. ## Exploitation Conditions Exploitation requires the victim to establish an RDP session to an attacker-controlled or compromised server running against a FreeRDP client before 3.22.0, and the connection must use the drdynvc dynamic virtual channel path. The attacker must then concurrently send DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE messages on a dynamic virtual channel to win a timing race in `channel_callback` access. Limiting factors: the attacker must control the RDP server side (this is a client-side vulnerability, so it cannot be triggered against an unwilling client that never connects), the exploit depends on winning a non-deterministic thread race (CVSS AC:H) so it is unreliable and may require repeated attempts, and reliable code execution beyond a crash requires heap-layout control. No authentication to the malicious server is needed, but the user must initiate the outbound connection. ## Attack Chain Lure victim to malicious RDP server → Client opens dynamic virtual channel (drdynvc) → Server races DYNVC_DATA and DYNVC_CLOSE → Trigger heap use-after-free on channel_callback → Crash client or execute code in client process ## Confidence Notes Affected/fixed version (before 3.22.0; fixed in 3.22.0), root cause, and functions are confirmed by the FreeRDP GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-3mv2-5q57-2v8h and the VulnCheck advisory. CVSS 4.0 vector, 8.3 score, and CWE-362 are provided in the input; RCE is described as potential, not demonstrated. Not listed in CISA KEV and no EPSS score or public POC was provided, so real-world exploitation status is unknown; downstream package version ranges are not confirmed due to absent CPE data. ## Prevalence high ## Prevalence Basis core open-source RDP library embedded in many Linux remote-desktop clients ## Assessed CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H ## Assessed CVSS Rationale Client-side flaw needing the victim to connect to a malicious server (UI:R) and to win a thread race (AC:H); heap corruption gives high availability impact with limited C/I. ## Assessed CVSS 4.0 Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

RCE Denial Of Service Race Condition +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

Unauthorized cross-user data access in Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA Workbook (Release 2021 through Release 2026) stems from a race condition that lets one authenticated low-privilege user read data belonging to another user. Vendor 3DS tags the flaw as an authentication bypass, and its CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L) reflects network-reachable exploitation by any authenticated account with high confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no EPSS or KEV signal supplied.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Biovia Workbook +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome desktop prior to 150.0.7871.47 lets an attacker who has already compromised the renderer process break out of the sandbox by winning a race condition in the USB subsystem via a crafted HTML page. Chromium rated it Medium severity despite the 9.6 CVSS, reflecting that it is a second-stage bug requiring prior renderer compromise; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not in CISA KEV, with EPSS at just 0.21% (11th percentile).

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Dell Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM) for Mac, versions prior to 2.3, lets a low-privileged local user win a race condition (CWE-362) to gain elevated privileges. The flaw stems from improper synchronization around a shared resource, and successful exploitation yields full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the host. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is negligible (0.07%); CISA SSVC marks exploitation as none but technical impact as total.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Dell +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Denial of service in the Linux kernel's Broadcom GENET (bcmgenet) Ethernet driver arises because the bcmgenet_timeout handler tears down all transmit queues when only a single queue times out, racing against queues still actively transmitting. The flaw affects systems using Broadcom GENET NICs (e.g. Raspberry Pi 4/CM4 and Broadcom set-top-box SoCs) and can lead to kernel instability or a crash under TX timeout conditions. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, EPSS is low (0.16%), and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation and memory-corruption risk in the Linux kernel disk quota subsystem arises from a use-after-free race between dquot_scan_active() and quota deactivation in quota_release_workfn(). On affected kernels (multiple stable trees from 4.19 through 6.x/7.x), a dquot can be acquired by the scan path after being placed on the releasing list with dq_count==0, so under memory pressure the caller may operate on a freed dquot, corrupting kernel memory. EPSS is low (0.18%, 7th percentile) and there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue requires local access with low privileges per the CVSS vector.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation or memory disclosure is possible in the User Mode Linux (UML/'um') architecture of the Linux kernel (affected around 6.19, fixed in 7.0.10 and 7.1) due to a TLB-sync race condition where the page table is traversed and modified without holding the page table lock. Concurrent threads in the same process can corrupt page table state, with CVSS 7.8 (local, low-privilege) and a high-impact triad; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low at 0.15% (5th percentile), consistent with a hard-to-trigger local race rather than a mass-exploited flaw.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH PATCH This Week

Recovery code reuse in Filament (Laravel admin panel framework) versions 4.0.0 through 4.11.4 and 5.0.0 through 5.6.4 allows attackers who already possess a victim's password and recovery codes to obtain multiple authenticated sessions per single recovery code by submitting parallel authentication requests. The flaw stems from a TOCTOU race condition (CWE-362) in app-based MFA recovery code validation, undermining the single-use guarantee. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is fixed in 4.11.5 and 5.6.5.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Filament +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Google Android's NFC subsystem stems from a use-after-free condition in Nfc::eventCallback() within Nfc.h, triggerable via a race condition without user interaction or additional execution privileges. Affected devices covered by the Android Security Bulletin for Android 17 can have an unprivileged local process win the race and elevate to higher-privileged context. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the vulnerability was disclosed by Google through the Android security bulletin process.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Google +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Android's PackageInstallerService allows a malicious app to remove a Device Policy Controller (DPC) from a managed device without Device Owner consent, breaking the enterprise management boundary. The flaw stems from a desynchronization between in-memory state and persisted state in createSessionInternal, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis. User interaction is required, but no additional execution privileges are needed beyond installing the malicious app.

Privilege Escalation Google Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS before 149.0.7827.155 lets an attacker who has already compromised the renderer process abuse a race condition (CWE-362) in the Updater component to break out of the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Rated High by Chromium with a CVSS 8.3 and scope-changing impact, but exploitation requires a pre-existing renderer compromise plus user interaction, making it a second-stage bug rather than a single-shot RCE. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS is low (0.27%) and CISA SSVC lists exploitation as none.

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS before 149.0.7827.155 lets a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process break out of the browser sandbox via a crafted HTML page, exploiting a race condition (CWE-362) in the Safe Browsing component. Rated High by Chromium with CVSS 8.3, it is a second-stage exploit-chain primitive rather than a standalone entry point. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, CISA SSVC marks exploitation as none, and EPSS is low at 0.24% (15th percentile).

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Concurrent action execution in OliveTin versions 3000.0.0 and prior triggers a race condition in a shared text/template.Template instance, enabling cross-user command contamination, runtime panics, and execution of unintended commands. Authenticated users of the OliveTin web interface can exploit this by issuing parallel ExecRequests; no public exploit is identified at time of analysis, but the bug manifests during normal multi-user operation. The vendor patched the issue in version 3000.13.0.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Olivetin +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the abrt-dbus D-Bus service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, and 8 allows a low-privileged local user to race the ChownProblemDir method against still-running post-create event handlers. By invoking ChownProblemDir while privileged event scripts hold a write lock on the dump directory, the attacker gains filesystem ownership of files being written by root-context handlers, enabling tampering with privileged output and potential privilege escalation. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS prior to 149.0.7827.115 allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the sandbox via a race condition in Safe Browsing handling of a malicious file. Chromium rates the issue High severity and a vendor patch is available, though no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Session hijacking in Pi-hole FTL versions prior to 6.6.1 stems from a race condition in the CivetWeb-based HTTP session management subsystem introduced during the v6.0 rewrite. Remote attackers can leverage concurrent requests to compromise web admin session state, potentially gaining high-impact access (C:H/I:H/A:H per CVSS 8.8) to the DNS sinkhole and network filtering controls. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but vendor has published an upstream fix in v6.6.1.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Pi Hole +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) allows an authenticated low-privileged user to elevate to SYSTEM by winning a race condition that triggers a use-after-free. The flaw is reported by Microsoft (MSRC) and carries CVSS 7.0 with high attack complexity, but no public exploit is identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) allows an authenticated low-privileged attacker to win a race condition and gain SYSTEM-level execution. The flaw is a use-after-free triggered through concurrent WinSock operations, and at time of analysis no public exploit has been identified and the CVE is not on the CISA KEV list.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) allows an authenticated low-privileged user to win a race condition and trigger a use-after-free, enabling code execution at kernel level. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but AFD.sys has a long history of being a preferred LPE target and Microsoft has marked the issue as important. EPSS data was not provided in the source feed.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows UI Automation Manager (uiamanager.dll) enables authenticated low-privileged users to gain higher privileges by exploiting a race condition in concurrent resource access. The flaw was reported by Microsoft's own security team (secure@microsoft.com) and has no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though the CVSS 7.0 score reflects high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability once successfully triggered.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +6
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) allows an authenticated local user to gain SYSTEM-level rights by winning a race condition that leads to a use-after-free in kernel memory. The flaw affects Windows installations where afd.sys is loaded (effectively all desktop and server SKUs) and was reported by Microsoft Security Response Center; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local code execution in Microsoft Office Excel can be achieved by an unauthenticated attacker who tricks a user into opening a malicious spreadsheet that triggers an integer underflow condition. The flaw carries a CVSS 7.0 rating reflecting high attack complexity and required user interaction, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. There is a notable mismatch between the description (integer underflow) and the assigned CWE-362 (race condition), which warrants verification with Microsoft's advisory.

Authentication Bypass Race Condition Microsoft +7
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows Push Notifications service stems from a race condition (CWE-362) that an authenticated low-privilege user can win to gain higher privileges on the host. The CVSS 7.8 score with Scope:Changed indicates successful exploitation crosses a security boundary, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of resources beyond the vulnerable component. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +10
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows Push Notifications service stems from a race condition (CWE-362) that an attacker with low-privileged local access can exploit to gain higher privileges. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not on CISA KEV, but the CVSS 7.8 rating reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability once the race is won. A vendor patch is available via the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +10
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows Push Notifications service stems from a race condition (CWE-362) in concurrent handling of shared resources, allowing an authorized low-privileged attacker to win a timing window and elevate to higher privileges with scope change. The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H reflects local-only exploitation with high attack complexity due to the timing-dependent nature, but a successful attacker gains full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact across a security boundary. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +10
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Windows Push Notifications enables an authenticated low-privileged user to elevate to higher privileges by exploiting a race condition (CWE-362) in concurrent access to a shared resource. Successful exploitation results in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with scope change, but no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Microsoft has released a patch via MSRC advisory.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +10
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Microsoft Remote Desktop Client is possible when a user connects to an attacker-controlled RDP server, where a heap-based buffer overflow triggered by a race condition (CWE-362) allows arbitrary code execution on the client machine. The flaw carries a CVSS 7.5 (High) rating with high attack complexity and required user interaction, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Microsoft has released a patch via MSRC advisory CVE-2026-42913.

Buffer Overflow Race Condition Microsoft +7
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows Telephony Service allows an authenticated low-privileged attacker to elevate to higher privileges by exploiting a race condition in concurrent access to a shared resource. The flaw carries a CVSS 7.0 (High) rating with high attack complexity, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Successful exploitation grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the affected host.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Microsoft Remote Desktop Client is possible when a user connects to an attacker-controlled or compromised RDP endpoint, where a race condition (CWE-362) can be triggered to corrupt heap memory and execute arbitrary code in the client process. The flaw is unauthenticated from the network attacker's perspective but requires user interaction to initiate the connection, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Buffer Overflow Race Condition Microsoft +15
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH Exploit Unlikely This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Windows Function Discovery Service (fdwsd.dll) allows an authorized low-privileged attacker on the host to win a race condition and obtain elevated privileges. Reported by Microsoft (secure@microsoft.com) and tracked under MSRC's update guide, the issue carries a CVSS 7.0 score driven by high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though the high attack complexity reflects the timing window required. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the flaw is not currently listed in CISA KEV.

Information Disclosure Race Condition Microsoft +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.9
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unsynchronized traversal of HVM I/O port translation linked lists in the Xen hypervisor on x86 systems exposes a race condition exploitable by a compromised or malicious device model. The hypervisor manages I/O port translations via a linked list modified by the device model through XEN_DOMCTL_ioport_mapping; because traversal of that list during I/O port handling was never synchronized against concurrent modifications, a racing update can corrupt traversal state. The resulting hypervisor crash causes a Denial of Service of the entire host, with privilege escalation and information leakage explicitly acknowledged as non-ruled-out consequences - all without any active CISA KEV listing or public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on macOS versions prior to 149.0.7827.103 allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer/network process to break out of the browser sandbox via a race condition triggered by a crafted HTML page. Chromium rates the severity as High and a vendor patch is available, though no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Use-After-Free and race conditions in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth hci_uart driver (drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.c) enable a local low-privileged user to corrupt kernel heap memory, potentially escalating to root. The flaw stems from improper lifecycle management of the hci_uart struct and its associated workqueues: when a TTY hangup interrupts Bluetooth UART initialization before HCI_UART_PROTO_READY is set, teardown skips workqueue cancellation, leaving deferred work items to dereference freed memory. Three compounding sub-issues - a tx_skb double-free, a vendor callback UAF via premature hci_free_dev(), and proto_lock races during error paths - are all resolved in patched stable releases. No public exploit is known and EPSS at 0.02% (7th percentile) signals low near-term exploitation probability despite the CVSS 7.8 rating.

Denial Of Service Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.53 enables a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the browser sandbox via a crafted HTML page that triggers a race condition in the Codecs component. Chromium rates this High severity, and while no public exploit was identified at time of analysis, the bug fits the classic renderer-to-sandbox-escape pattern frequently chained in real-world Chrome exploit kits. CVSS is 8.3 reflecting high attack complexity, required user interaction, and a scope change.

Information Disclosure Google Race Condition +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote denial of service in Gotenberg v8.10.0 through v8.32.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the process by sending a single multipart request with multiple downloadFrom entries that trigger concurrent writes to unsynchronized Go maps. Because the default deployment enables downloadFrom and disables authentication, any internet-exposed instance can be terminated remotely without credentials, and publicly available exploit code exists in the upstream GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-vp73-vjw8-8f32. No public exploit identified in CISA KEV at time of analysis, but the PoC is fully reproducible and the fix is shipped in v8.33.0.

Denial Of Service Race Condition
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Remote code execution in Google Chrome versions prior to 148.0.7778.216 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code within the renderer sandbox by enticing a victim to visit a crafted HTML page that triggers a race condition in the WebAudio component. Google rates the underlying Chromium issue as High severity, and while no public exploit identified at time of analysis, the bug is browser-resident and reachable from any web origin, making it a meaningful drive-by risk once details surface. EPSS data was not provided, and the issue is not currently listed in CISA KEV.

RCE Google Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation risk in the Linux kernel's ALSA PCM OSS emulation layer stems from an unprotected concurrent access to the runtime.oss.trigger bit field, allowing racing writes to corrupt adjacent bit fields and destabilize sound device state. The flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 6.12.88, 6.18.30, and 7.0.7, and was discovered through fuzzing; no public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS scoring (0.02%) indicates negligible probability of opportunistic exploitation.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Race condition in the Linux kernel's MPTCP (Multipath TCP) path manager subsystem affects the mptcp_pm_add_timer() ADD_ADDR retransmission helper, where the timer callback runs in softirq context without holding the socket lock via bh_lock_sock(). The data race could lead to inconsistent socket state when concurrent operations touch the same MPTCP socket. Despite a CVSS of 9.8, EPSS is only 0.02% (5th percentile) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the tag 'Information Disclosure' suggests realistic impact is far below the headline score.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Race condition in the Linux kernel's NVMe/TCP target (nvmet-tcp) subsystem allows a remote NVMe/TCP host to trigger a double kref_put() on a queue object by sending an Initialization Connection Request (ICReq) and immediately closing the connection. The flaw, fixed in stable releases 6.12.88, 6.18.30, and 7.0.7 (mainline 7.1-rc2), stems from nvmet_tcp_handle_icreq() updating queue->state without serializing against concurrent target-side queue teardown, defeating the DISCONNECTING-state guard and enabling a use-after-free condition. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low (0.02%), indicating limited real-world exploitation interest despite the headline 9.8 CVSS.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Use-after-free in the Linux kernel's amphion VPU media driver allows local privileged users to trigger a kernel panic and potential memory corruption due to a race condition between v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() and v4l2_m2m_try_run(). The flaw affects systems using the amphion video encode/decode driver (introduced in 5.18) and has been resolved upstream by removing reliance on the m2m framework's job scheduling. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low (0.02%), but the local high-impact CVSS of 7.8 makes it relevant for multi-tenant or hardened kernel deployments.

Denial Of Service Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Race condition in the Linux kernel's Intel VT-d IOMMU driver allows a local low-privileged attacker to trigger inconsistent PASID table state during domain replacement, potentially producing spurious IOMMU faults and unpredictable DMA behavior with cross-scope impact. The flaw stems from non-atomic updates to 512-bit PASID entries while the Present bit is set, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis despite a high CVSS score driven by the scope-changed local attack surface.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Filesystem data integrity issue in the Linux kernel ext4 module allows local low-privileged users to trigger bitmap inconsistencies through a race condition between page migration and ext4 buddy bitmap modification under mixed huge-page workloads. The flaw can produce false group descriptor mismatches and corruption of in-memory block allocation state, with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact per CVSS 7.8 (AV:L). No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low at 0.02%.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Use-after-free condition in the Linux kernel's RDMA Soft RoCE (rxe) driver allows local privileged users to trigger memory corruption through a race between the QP retransmit_timer handler and rxe_destroy_qp. The flaw stems from the Queue Pair reference count dropping to zero while a timer callback is still executing, producing refcount underflow warnings and potential kernel memory corruption. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS exploitation probability is very low at 0.02%.

Information Disclosure Linux Race Condition
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Algernon web server versions prior to 1.17.6 stems from a race condition in the Lua handler engine where the sync.RWMutex protecting LoadCommonFunctions is released before L.Push() and L.PCall() execute on the non-goroutine-safe gopher-lua LState. Concurrent HTTP requests corrupt the shared Lua VM state, causing server instability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is very low (0.04%), but reproduction is trivial under modest load (ab -n 1000 -c 100).

Information Disclosure Race Condition Algernon +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Use-after-free in Ruby 4.x (before 4.0.5) lets remote attackers who can manipulate DNS response timing crash applications calling Addrinfo.getaddrinfo with a timeout: option or Socket.tcp with resolv_timeout:. The flaw lives in the pthread-based getaddrinfo timeout handler (rb_getaddrinfo in ext/socket/raddrinfo.c) and, while reliably exploitable for denial of service, also raises a theoretical possibility of memory-corruption-based code execution. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Race Condition Ruby +1
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH This Week

Remote code execution in Sparx Systems Pro Cloud Server (versions 0 through 6.1 build 167) is achievable by authenticated repository users via a race condition in the /data_api/dl_internal_artifact.php endpoint. An attacker who controls both the filename and contents of a downloaded artifact can briefly stage a malicious PHP file in the web root and execute it before cleanup, leading to full server compromise. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but a detailed technical write-up published by CERT-PL and sploit.tech reduces the barrier to reproduction.

PHP RCE Race Condition +2
NVD
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