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High MSRC-CVE-2025-60704 1 CVE

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Nov 11, 2025 · Updated Nov 11, 2025

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
When multiple attack vectors can be used, we assign a score based on the scenario with the higher risk. In one such scenario for this vulnerability, the attacker could convince a victim to connect to an attacker controlled malicious application (for example, SMB) server. Upon connecting, the malicious server could compromise the protocol.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must inject themselves into the logical network path between the target and the resource requested by the victim to read or modify network communications. This is called a machine-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R) and privileges required are none (PR:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An unauthorized attacker must wait for a user to initiate a connection.

Security updates
10.0.17763.8027 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068791
10.0.20348.4405 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068787
10.0.20348.4346 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068840
10.0.19044.6575 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068781
10.0.26100.7171 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068861
10.0.26100.7092 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068966
10.0.22631.6199 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068865
10.0.25398.1965 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068779
10.0.14393.8594 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068864
6.0.6003.23624 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068906
6.0.6003.23624 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068909
6.1.7601.28021 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068904
6.1.7601.28021 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068908
6.2.9200.25768 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068907
6.3.9600.22869 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068905

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