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Akamai researchers have created a new AI capability for instant root-cause analysis. The tool is a supervised multi-agent system, dubbed Patchdiff-AI. In this article we are using it for deep analysis of CVE-2025-60719, that affects all Windows versions.
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The tool and the research will be presented at Black Hat Europe Arsenal on Wednesday, December 10, at ExCeL London.
- The Vulnerability: A Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) caused by a race condition.
- The Impact: Local Elevation of Privilege (EoP). An attacker with low privileges can manipulate the kernel memory and gain SYSTEM privileges.
- Root Cause: The driver failed to prevent a socket endpoint from being unbound (freed) while other operations (like Transfer, GetInformation, or Connect) were actively dereferencing its associated objects.
- The Fix: Microsoft added a synchronization barrier mechanism (AfdPreventUnbind / AfdReallowUnbind) to explicitly lock the endpoint state during critical operations.
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