Description

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-47161

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Microsoft

Product: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 13.56% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-03 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47161
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-47161

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