Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Exploited according to Microsoft — Exploitation Detected. Customer action: Required.
Details
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 take additional actions prior to exploitation to prepare the target environment.
How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
In an email or instant message attack scenario, the attacker could send the targeted user a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the vulnerability.
In any case an attacker would have no way to force a user to view attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince a user to take action. For example, an attacker could entice a user to either click a link that directs the user to the attacker's site or send a malicious attachment.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file.
In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file., In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability.
An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
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
10.0.19044.5608 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053606
10.0.22621.5039 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053602
10.0.26100.3476 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053598
10.0.26100.3403 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053636
10.0.25398.1486 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053599
10.0.10240.20947 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053618
10.0.14393.7876 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053594
6.0.6003.23168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053888
6.0.6003.23168 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053995
6.1.7601.27618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053620
6.1.7601.27618 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053627
6.2.9200.25368 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053886
6.3.9600.22470 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5053887
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.0
Microsoft Management Console Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Improper neutralization in Microsoft Management Console allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
KEV Mar 11, 2025
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-26633 Microsoft Management Console Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-26633
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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