Summary
Microsoft Windows SMB Client contains an improper access control vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation. An attacker could execute a specially crafted malicious script to coerce the victim machine to connect back to the attack system using SMB and authenticate.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Windows
- Added to KEV
- Oct 20, 2025
- Remediation due
- Nov 10, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-284
- EPSS
- 82.8% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References