CVE-2025-62215

CVE-2025-62215 Microsoft Windows Race Condition Exploitation

Privilege Escalation Execution Last updated:

Detects exploitation attempts of CVE-2025-62215, a race condition vulnerability (CWE-362) in Microsoft Windows. This KEV-listed vulnerability can be abused by attackers to gain elevated privileges or execute arbitrary code by winning a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition. Detection focuses on suspicious process creation patterns, handle manipulation, and abnormal thread timing indicative of race condition exploitation.

Vulnerability Intelligence

KEV — Known Exploited

Affected Software

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows

Weakness (CWE)

Timeline

Disclosed
November 12, 2025

CVSS

Unscored
Write-up coming soon

What is CVE-2025-62215 CVE-2025-62215 Microsoft Windows Race Condition Exploitation?

CVE-2025-62215 Microsoft Windows Race Condition Exploitation (CVE-2025-62215) maps to the Privilege Escalation and Execution tactics — the adversary is trying to gain higher-level permissions in MITRE ATT&CK.

This page provides production-ready detection logic for CVE-2025-62215 Microsoft Windows Race Condition Exploitation, covering the data sources and telemetry it touches: Windows Security Event Log, Microsoft Sentinel SecurityEvent table. The queries below are rated high severity at medium confidence, and ship for 7 SIEM platforms — KQL, SPL, Elastic, QRadar, Sumo, YARA-L, LogScale.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic
Privilege Escalation Execution
Microsoft Sentinel / Defender
kusto
let timeWindow = 5m;
SecurityEvent
| where TimeGenerated > ago(24h)
| where EventID in (4688, 4689, 4656, 4663, 4670)
| where ProcessName has_any ("svchost.exe", "lsass.exe", "winlogon.exe", "services.exe")
    or (EventID == 4688 and ParentProcessName has_any ("svchost.exe", "services.exe") and NewProcessName !has_any ("conhost.exe", "WerFault.exe"))
| join kind=inner (
    SecurityEvent
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(24h)
    | where EventID == 4672
    | project AccountName, Computer, PrivilegeList, TimeGenerated
) on AccountName, Computer
| where PrivilegeList has_any ("SeDebugPrivilege", "SeTcbPrivilege", "SeCreateTokenPrivilege")
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated), UniqueEventIDs = make_set(EventID) by AccountName, Computer, ProcessName
| where EventCount > 3
| extend TimeDeltaSeconds = datetime_diff('second', LastSeen, FirstSeen)
| where TimeDeltaSeconds < 30
| extend RiskScore = case(EventCount > 10, "High", EventCount > 5, "Medium", "Low")
| project-reorder FirstSeen, LastSeen, Computer, AccountName, ProcessName, EventCount, TimeDeltaSeconds, RiskScore, UniqueEventIDs

Detects rapid sequences of object access, privilege assignment, and process creation events on sensitive Windows processes within a short time window — characteristic of race condition exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2025-62215.

high severity medium confidence

Data Sources

Windows Security Event Log Microsoft Sentinel SecurityEvent table

Required Tables

SecurityEvent

False Positives

  • Legitimate system administration tools performing rapid handle operations on system processes
  • Security scanners or EDR agents that enumerate process handles at high frequency
  • Software installers or update mechanisms that require elevated privileges and spawn multiple child processes
  • Windows Defender or antivirus products performing deep process inspection

Sigma rule & cross-platform mapping

The detection logic for CVE-2025-62215 Microsoft Windows Race Condition Exploitation (CVE-2025-62215) above is provided in a vendor-neutral form so you can deploy it on any SIEM. The same logic is shipped here as native KQL (Microsoft Sentinel / Defender), SPL (Splunk), Elastic (Elastic Security (EQL)), QRadar (IBM QRadar (AQL)), Sumo (Sumo Logic CSE), YARA-L (Google Chronicle / SecOps), LogScale (CrowdStrike LogScale (CQL)) queries. In Sigma terms, this detection targets the following logsource:

logsource:
  product: windows

Browse the community-maintained Sigma rules for this technique:


Testing Methodology

Validate this detection against 3 adversary techniques from Atomic Red Team. Each test below lists the behaviour to exercise and the telemetry you should expect to see. Executable commands and cleanup steps are available with Pro.

  1. Test 1Simulate Rapid Handle Acquisition on System Process

    Expected signal: Windows Security Event Log entries for EventID 4656 (A handle to an object was requested) and 4658 (The handle to an object was closed) appearing in rapid succession for the svchost process, triggering the burst detection threshold.

  2. Test 2Privilege Escalation Sequence Simulation

    Expected signal: EventID 4688 (process creation) followed by EventID 4672 (special privileges assigned to new logon) within seconds, generating the correlated alert pattern.

  3. Test 3CreateRemoteThread into System Process (Lab Only)

    Expected signal: CrowdStrike CreateRemoteThreadV2 event and Windows EventID 4656 for the target process handle, followed by potential Microsoft Defender ATP alert for suspicious cross-process thread creation.

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