Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Binary Load in Windows
CVE-2025-10885 Published on November 6, 2025
Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A maliciously crafted file, when executed on the victim's machine, can lead to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM due to an insufficient validation of loaded binaries. An attacker with local and low-privilege access could exploit this to execute code as SYSTEM.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-10885 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
The software performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-10885
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Affected Versions
Autodesk Installer:- Version 2.18 and below 2.19 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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