Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, Attack Vector is Local (AV:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker would have to have local presence on the device through malware or a malicious application to be able to exploit this vulnerability.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to gather information specific to the environment and take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.
Security updates
1.3.195.43 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnotes-security
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.4
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2025-21399 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21399
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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