Windows Storage VSP Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2025-59517 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Storage VSP Driver caused by improper access control. The available source material states that an authorized attacker can exploit the flaw locally to elevate privileges. Public context identifies it as part of Microsoft’s December 2025 security updates and notes that Microsoft assessed it as more likely to be exploited. No further technical detail about the specific vulnerable function, code path, or triggering mechanism is provided in the supplied content.
Are you exposed to this one?
Mallory correlates every CVE against your assets, your vendors, and active adversary campaigns. Know which vulnerabilities matter for you, not just which ones are loud.
Impact, mitigation & remediation
What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.
Impact
What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
Mitigation
If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.
Remediation
Patch, then assume compromise.
Exploits
No public exploits tracked yet. Mallory keeps watching.
No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
Affected products & vendors
Products and vendors Mallory has correlated with this vulnerability. Open in Mallory to drill down to specific CPE configurations and version ranges.
Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
Recent activity
10 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Storage VSP Driver due to improper access control. Exploitation is considered more likely.
A vulnerability in the Storage VSP driver, details unspecified but likely privilege escalation or code execution.
Windows Storage VSP Driver local elevation of privilege vulnerability (noted as more likely to be exploited).
A vulnerability in the Windows Storage VSP Driver flagged as more likely to be exploited.
The version that knows your environment.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.