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CVE-2025-55247.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 0.62%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 50% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in .NET allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.62% · top 50% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- NuGetMicrosoft.BuildGHSA-w3q9-fxm7-j8fq (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.Build.Tasks.CoreGHSA-w3q9-fxm7-j8fq (opens in a new tab)
- NuGetMicrosoft.Build.Utilities.CoreGHSA-w3q9-fxm7-j8fq (opens in a new tab)
References
References1
- .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-34427 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w3q9-fxm7-j8fq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-55247)Record last updated .