Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Exploited according to Microsoft — Exploitation Detected. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker would be able to delete targeted files on a system.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of confidentiality (C:N), but could lead to major loss on integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability does not allow disclosure of any confidential information, but could allow an attacker to delete data that could include data that results in the service being unavailable.
Security updates
10.0.17763.6893 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052000
10.0.20348.3207 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051979
10.0.20348.3148 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052106
10.0.19044.5487 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051974
10.0.22621.4890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051989
10.0.26100.3194 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051987
10.0.26100.3107 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052105
10.0.25398.1425 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5051980
10.0.10240.20915 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052040
10.0.14393.7785 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5052006
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1CVE-2025-21391 Exploited
Windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
KEV Feb 11, 2025
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-21391 Windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21391
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss