CVE-2025-53788 is a high-severity time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This flaw allows an authorized local attacker to achieve privilege escalation. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.0, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with high attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has received limited community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.5.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_subsystem_for_linux:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.