Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-53769

Medium

Published: 12 August 2025

Published
12 August 2025
Modified
15 August 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0150 81.6th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-53769 is a medium-severity External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Security App. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

External control of file name or path in Windows Security App allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing locally.

CWE(s)
CWE-73

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows security app
≤ 1000.27840.0.1000

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-73

Rejects externally supplied file or resource identifiers that fail validity checks.

References