cve-2025-49738

  1. PC Manager Local Privilege Escalation: Patch, Detect, and Hunt (2025)

    When a vendor-side advisory and a CVE identifier don’t line up, the first — and most important — job for defenders and researchers is to stop, verify, and update the record. I tried to open the MSRC page you gave and could not find any public advisory, nor could I find any authoritative...
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  2. CVE-2025-49738: Critical Link Following Vulnerability in Microsoft PC Manager

    Improper link resolution before file access, often referred to as "link following," represents a recurring and serious class of vulnerabilities in modern software, and with the disclosure of CVE-2025-49738 in Microsoft PC Manager, this long-standing issue has found a new foothold in a widely...
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