{"id":6302,"date":"2025-12-03T18:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T18:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:12:45","slug":"microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/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":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft 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\u00a0Microsoft 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft 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 described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/microsoft-silently-patches-windows-lnk-flaw-after-years-of-active-exploitation\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}