{"id":856,"date":"2025-12-03T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=856"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:18:42","slug":"microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company&#8217;s November 2025&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/11\/microsoft-fixes-63-security-flaws.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patch Tuesday updates<\/a>, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.0patch.com\/2025\/12\/microsoft-silently-patched-cve-2025.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ACROS Security&#8217;s 0patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vulnerability in question is&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-9491\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2025-9491<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(CVSS score: 7.8\/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/12\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk.html\">Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company&#8217;s November 2025&nbsp;Patch Tuesday updates, according to&nbsp;ACROS Security&#8217;s 0patch. The vulnerability in question is&nbsp;CVE-2025-9491&nbsp;(CVSS score: 7.8\/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}