MSRC-CVE-2025-29795 — Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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?
The attacker would gain the rights of the user that is running the affected application.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-29795

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Microsoft Edge Update Setup Browsers

Mar 23, 2025

Revision history

2025-03-21 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-29795 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29795
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss