CVE-2025-27472

Windows Mark of the Web Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Apr 8, 2025
Updated: Aug 10, 2026
Reserved: Feb 26, 2025

Description

Protection mechanism failure in Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW) allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows 10 Version 1507Microsoft	10.0.10240.0 to before 10.0.10240.20978Affected
Windows Server 2012Microsoft	6.2.9200.0 to before 6.2.9200.25423Affected
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.2.9200.0 to before 6.2.9200.25423Affected
Windows Server 2012 R2Microsoft	6.3.9600.0 to before 6.3.9600.22523Affected
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	6.3.9600.0 to before 6.3.9600.22523Affected

References

Windows Mark of the Web Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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