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CVE-2025-60710 — Microsoft Windows

CISA KEV

CVSS v3.1 7.5 (HIGH) · EPSS 20.8% (higher than 95.7% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2025-11-11

As of 2026-04-14, CVE-2025-60710 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, CVSS v3.1 7.5, EPSS 20.8% (95.7th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-13), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2026-04-27. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2025-60710, most recently “CVE-2025-60710: Windows Task Host (taskhostw.exe) Link Following Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM via Recall PolicyConfiguration Scheduled Task”.

Last updated: 2026-04-14

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 306 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): 20.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.7% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Listed since 2026-04-13, federal remediation deadline 2026-04-27
Threadlinqs priority: 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published: 2025-11-11, last modified 2026-04-14

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. It currently carries a trending score of 39 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

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

2 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.

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

Seeded from threat-derived and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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