Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. 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 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
10.0.17763.7009 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053596
10.0.20348.3328 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053603
10.0.20348.3270 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053638
10.0.26100.3476 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053598
10.0.26100.3403 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053636
10.0.14393.7876 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053594
10.0.25398.1486 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053599
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
Windows Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Windows allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#2
Updated links to security updates. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-25008 Windows Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-25008
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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