MSRC-CVE-2025-49738 — Microsoft PC Manager 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 this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-49738

Microsoft PC Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft PC Manager allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Microsoft PC Manager

Jul 8, 2025

Revision history

2025-07-08 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-49738 Microsoft PC Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49738
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