CVE-2025-53779
Published: 12 August 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-53779 is a high-severity Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2025. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2025-53779 is a relative path traversal flaw, tracked under CWE-23, that resides in the Windows Kerberos component. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 with network attack vector, low complexity, and high-privilege requirements.
An authorized attacker can exploit the issue remotely to elevate privileges on the target system, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Microsoft has published an advisory for the vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53779. The EPSS score remains flat at 0.0623 with no material increase observed after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-24284
Vulnerability details
Relative path traversal in Windows Kerberos allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.