{"id":8920,"date":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:04:23","slug":"microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security&#8217;s 0patch.<br \/>\nThe vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8\/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that could lead to remote<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/12\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation 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 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security&#8217;s 0patch. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8\/7.0), which has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}