CVE-2025-29801 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) caused by incorrect default permissions. An authorized attacker can exploit this with low attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While it has a high CVSS score of 7.8, there is currently no public exploit code available, nor is it listed in CISA's KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.78CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:autoupdate:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.