CVE-2025-53779 Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An authorized attacker can elevate privileges via relative path traversal in Windows Kerberos over the network.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-53779?
CVE-2025-53779 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server 2025, published on 12 Aug 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Relative path traversal in Windows Kerberos allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Weakness: CWE-23
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53779?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Windows Server 2025.
How do I fix CVE-2025-53779?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53779 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-53779 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53779 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 3 proofs of concept on GitHub.
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- CVE-2026-49169 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2026-34332 Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2026-72928 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2026-20830 Capability Access Management Service (camsvc) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-93cj-3754-25wf.