🛡️ CVE-2025-26684 — defender-for-endpoint

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-73 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

External control of file name or path in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-26684 is classified as CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path. A caller can influence which file the application opens or writes, extending an operation to files that were never meant to be reachable.

Affected software

CVE-2025-26684 is recorded against 1 package.

  • defender-for-endpoint (fixed in 101.25032.0008)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-73
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
defender-for-endpoint — 101.25032.0008

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