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Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists during the installation of Epic Games Store via the Microsoft Store. A low-privilege user can replace a DLL file during the installation process, which may result in unintended elevation of privileges.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-08 | Published 2026-01-15 | Updated 2026-01-16 | Assigner talos




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Product status

14.6.2.0
affected

Credits

Discovered by KPC of Cisco Talos.

References

www.talosintelligence.com/...ability_reports/TALOS-2025-2279

talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2279

cve.org (CVE-2025-61973)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-61973)

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