Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is secrets or privileged information belonging to the user of the affected application.
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).
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user would need to physically access the device after the user has hovered over a taskbar preview and then locked the screen or put the device to sleep, potentially exposing the application window on the lock screen.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.19044.6456 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066791
10.0.22621.6060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066793
10.0.26100.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
10.0.10240.21161 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066837
10.0.14393.8519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066836
Vulnerabilities 1
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Low 2.1
Windows Taskbar Live Preview Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in Windows Taskbar Live allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information with a physical attack.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-59294 Windows Taskbar Live Preview Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-59294
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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