How severe is CVE-2025-60710?

CVE-2025-60710 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2025-60710: Host Process for Windows Tasks Elevation of Privilege

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Windows Link Following Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2026-04-13

Remediation due

2026-04-27

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60710 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60710

Description

Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Host Process for Windows Tasks allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Microsoft	Windows 11 Version 24H2	10.0.26100.0 to <10.0.26100.7462
Microsoft	Windows 11 Version 25H2	10.0.26200.0 to <10.0.26200.7462
Microsoft	Windows Server 2025	10.0.26100.0 to <10.0.26100.7462
Microsoft	Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)	10.0.26100.0 to <10.0.26100.7462

References

3 Links

Vendor advisories

Host Process for Windows Tasks Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Other references

Record Details

Published

2025-11-11

Last updated

2026-08-15

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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