Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An authorized attacker must send the user a malicious link and convince the user to open it.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060531
10.0.20348.3807 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060526
10.0.20348.3745 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060525
10.0.19044.5965 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060533
10.0.22621.5472 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060999
10.0.26100.4349 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060842
10.0.26100.4270 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060841
10.0.25398.1665 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060118
10.0.10240.21034 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5060998
10.0.14393.8148 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5061010
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Windows Recovery Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Recovery Driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-32721 Windows Recovery Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-32721
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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