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High MSRC-CVE-2025-49728 1 CVE

Microsoft PC Manager Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Published Sep 16, 2025 · Updated Sep 16, 2025

Summary

Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.

Details

What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker can obtain keys, which could enable an attacker to partially bypass the application's cryptographic protections. Confidential information could be exposed to malicious users, including configuration data but not including personal information or credentials.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L),but lead to no loss of availability (A:N) and integrity (I:N)? What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view some sensitive information (Confidentiality) but not all resources within the impacted component may be divulged to the attacker. The attacker cannot make changes to disclosed information (Integrity) or limit access to the resource (Availability).

Security updates
3.18.0.0 — https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pm860492szd?hl=en-us&gl=US

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.0

    Microsoft PC Manager Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

    Cleartext storage of sensitive information in Microsoft PC Manager allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.

Revision history

  1. #1

    Information published.

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