CVE-2025-59497 (GCVE-0-2025-59497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-14 17:01 – Updated: 2026-02-22 17:26
VLAI?
Title
Microsoft Defender for Linux Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Linux allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
Severity ?
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux Affected: 101.0.0 , < 101.25032.0010 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2025-10-14 14:00
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