Windows Update Service, the backbone of the Windows ecosystem’s patch management and security pipeline, has come under intense scrutiny following the recent disclosure of CVE-2025-48799—a critical Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability stemming from improper link resolution, also commonly...
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Improper handling of link resolution in Windows Server systems has raised alarms in the IT security community. Tracked as CVE-2025-25008, this vulnerability leverages a flaw in how Windows processes symbolic and hard links—often referred to as “link following”—to allow an authorized user to...
