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CVE-2025-49679: Windows Shell Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Numeric truncation error in Windows Shell allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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CVE-2025-47160: Windows Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Protection mechanism failure in Windows Shell allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.

CVE-2024-43552: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?** The word **Remote** in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.

CVE-2022-30222: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

**How would an attacker exploit this vulnerability?** An unauthenticated attacker could interact with the login screen of a vulnerable system in a specific manner to execute code on that system.