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Medium MSRC-CVE-2025-21185 1 CVE

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Jan 16, 2025 · Updated Jan 16, 2025

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Moderate. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could achieve elevation of privilege and gain the ability to read the API component.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), but lead to no loss of integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability cannot modify any sensitive user data or cause user data to become unavailable but can access sensitive user data.

What is the version information for this release?
132.0.2957.115: 132.0.2957.115, 1/17/2025: 1/17/2025, 132.0.6834.83/84: 132.0.6834.83/84

Security updates
132.0.2957.115 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security

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Revision history

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