MSRC-CVE-2025-55245 — Xbox Gaming Services 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 the vulnerability?
An attacker would be able to delete targeted files on a system.

Security updates
30.104.13001.0. — https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MWPM2CQNLHN?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-55245

Xbox Gaming Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Microsoft Xbox Gaming Services

Sep 9, 2025

Revision history

2025-09-09 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-55245 Xbox Gaming Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-55245
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