What is CVE-2025-60710?
Windows link following vulnerability (CWE-59) that enables local privilege escalation via symbolic link abuse. Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-04-13 as part of a batch of seven actively exploited flaws affecting Microsoft, Adobe, and Fortinet products.
The record classifies CVE-2025-60710 under weakness class CWE-59. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 354 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.5 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - EPSS (FIRST)
- 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.4% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2026-04-13, federal remediation deadline 2026-04-27 — used in known ransomware campaigns
- Threadlinqs priority
- 10/10 — CISA lists it as used in ransomware, which Threadlinqs scores at the maximum
- Published
- 2025-11-11, last modified 2026-08-15
Is CVE-2025-60710 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2025-60710 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-04-13, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2026-04-27 under BOD 22-01. CISA flags the vulnerability as one used in known ransomware campaigns. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-60710 is publicly available. 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 51 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- redpack-kr/CVE-2025-60710 (github)
- Wh04m1001/CVE-2025-60710 (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Microsoft: Windows
How to fix CVE-2025-60710
Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-60710. Because CVE-2025-60710 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2026-04-27. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-60710
3 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2025-60710, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
- Emperador Ransomware Group Claims 3.9GB Data Theft from AB InBev (Budweiser, Corona Maker) - Unverified $1M Bitcoin Extortion — MEDIUM · 2026-10-26
- CVE-2025-60710: Windows Task Host (taskhostw.exe) Link Following Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM via Recall PolicyConfiguration Scheduled Task — HIGH · 2026-04-15
- CISA KEV Catalog Update: Seven Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities Added 2026-04-13 (Microsoft, Adobe, Fortinet) — CRITICAL · 2026-04-13
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .