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CVE record · CVE-2025-9491

Microsoft Windows LNK File UI Misrepresentation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS 7.0 HighCriticalEPSS 0.76 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 7.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.76 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: zdi) at 26 Aug 2025, 16:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Windows
  • affected 11 Enterprise 23H2 22631.4169 x64
Other versions: unknown
Identifiers
CVE-2025-9491
CNA
zdi
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-451
Tags
Published
26 Aug 2025
Updated
5 Dec 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (zdi)Used for this record
3.3 Low 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N ADP (CISA-ADP)
4.6 Medium 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.76, the 99th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Aug 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.