Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow an attacker to bypass the Office Protected View and open in editing mode rather than protected mode.
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.
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 Word file.
In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a link to the specially crafted Word file. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to open the file, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message.
Security updates
10.0.19045.5854 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058379
10.0.20348.3692 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058385
10.0.25398.1611 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058384
10.0.26100.4061 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058411
10.0.26100.3981 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058497
10.0.17763.7314 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058392
10.0.22631.5335 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058405
10.0.14393.8066 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058383
10.0.10240.21014 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058387
10.0.20348.3630 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058500
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
UrlMon Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Acceptance of extraneous untrusted data with trusted data in UrlMon allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-29842 UrlMon Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29842
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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