CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-59497

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Linux allows an authorized attacker to cause a denial of service locally.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with privileges can disrupt the Defender service, potentially affecting system protection and availability.

Recommendation

Apply security updates provided by Microsoft for Defender for Linux.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Linux allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS