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?
With successful exploitation of this vulnerability, an attacker could gain elevated privileges equivalent to a system managed administrator, allowing them to execute arbitrary code with high integrity and bypass administrator protections.
Security updates
10.0.26100.7171 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068861
10.0.26100.7092 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5068966
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Windows Administrator Protection Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Untrusted search path in Windows Administrator Protection allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-60718 Windows Administrator Protection Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60718
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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