Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-59244

Medium

Published: 14 October 2025

Published
14 October 2025
Modified
17 October 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0010 27.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-59244 is a medium-severity External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 27.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

External control of file name or path in Windows Core Shell allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.

CWE(s)
CWE-73

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.21161 · ≤ 10.0.10240.21161
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.8519 · ≤ 10.0.14393.8519
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.7919 · ≤ 10.0.17763.7919
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.6456
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.6456
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.6060
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.6060
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.6899
microsoft
windows 11 25h2
≤ 10.0.26200.6899
microsoft
windows server 2012
r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

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