CVE-2025-21360: CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management in Microsoft Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac
Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-21360 and classified under CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), affects Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac version 4.0.0. It allows an attacker with local access and limited privileges to elevate their privileges to a higher level, potentially leading to full system compromise. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.8, indicating high severity with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could result in an attacker gaining elevated privileges on the affected system, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system. This could allow unauthorized actions that are normally restricted to higher privilege levels.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update for Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac version 4.0.0 as provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21360 to remediate this vulnerability.
CVE-2025-21360: CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management in Microsoft Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac
Description
Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.8high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-21360 and classified under CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), affects Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac version 4.0.0. It allows an attacker with local access and limited privileges to elevate their privileges to a higher level, potentially leading to full system compromise. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.8, indicating high severity with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability as documented in their security update guide.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could result in an attacker gaining elevated privileges on the affected system, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system. This could allow unauthorized actions that are normally restricted to higher privilege levels.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update for Microsoft AutoUpdate for Mac version 4.0.0 as provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21360 to remediate this vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-12-11T00:29:48.356Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21360","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 68c0bd539ed239a66badec1f
Added to database: 09/09/2025, 23:50:43 UTC
Last enriched: 06/10/2026, 09:58:20 UTC
Last updated: 07/03/2026, 20:51:22 UTC
Views: 259
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