PT-2025-1220 · Microsoft · Windows Recovery Environment Agent+1

Published 2025-01-14 · Updated 2026-01-11 · CVE-2025-21202

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Windows (affected versions not specified)

Description An elevation-of-privilege issue exists within the Windows Recovery Environment Agent component. Successful exploitation of this issue could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. The issue is related to access control errors.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

LPE

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-00599

CVE-2025-21202

Affected Products

Windows

Windows Recovery Environment Agent

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21202 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-21202 · Security Note
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21202 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21202 · Vendor Advisory
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2025-21202 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-00599 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1879490177116356847 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1989536731121520706 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/proxy_bar/2877 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/akaclandestine/status/1989361467427058067 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/akaclandestine/status/1989612182410059846 · Twitter Post