CVE-2025-53779

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Aug 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Jul 9, 2025

Description

Relative path traversal in Windows Kerberos allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Windows Server 2025Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.4946Affected
Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)Microsoft	10.0.26100.0 to before 10.0.26100.4946Affected

References

Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisorypatch

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