MSRC-CVE-2025-59281 — 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
31.105.17001.0 — https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mwpm2cqnlhn?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2025-59281

Xbox Gaming Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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

Microsoft Xbox Gaming Services

Oct 14, 2025

Revision history

2025-10-14 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-59281 Xbox Gaming Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59281
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