Summary
Impact: Denial of Service. 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) and privileges required is Low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Exploitation of this attack requires a local attacker to create arbitrary directories. User interaction is necessary as the attacker relies on an Administrator to run wprui.exe for the first time.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7558 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062557
10.0.20348.3932 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062572
10.0.19044.6093 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062554
10.0.22621.5624 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062552
10.0.26100.4652 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062553
10.0.25398.1732 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062570
10.0.10240.21073 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062561
10.0.14393.8246 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062560
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.3
Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Performance Recorder allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-49680 Windows Performance Recorder (WPR) Denial of Service Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49680
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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