Windows Administrator Protection Untrusted Search Path Privilege Escalation

Successful exploitation allows a local attacker with authorized access to elevate privileges on the affected Windows system. The provided content does not specify the final integrity level or account context obtained, but the vulnerability is explicitly described as a local privilege-escalation issue.

Until vendor fixes are applied, reduce opportunities for untrusted search path abuse by restricting local write access to directories that may be searched by privileged processes, enforcing strong application control policies, monitoring for suspicious binary planting in user-writable paths, and minimizing local administrative or other authorized access where possible. The available content does not provide product-specific mitigations beyond the fact that exploitation is local and requires authorized access.

Apply the vendor security update for CVE-2025-60718 once available for the affected Windows versions and Administrator Protection component. Because the provided content does not include patch KB numbers, affected build ranges, or implementation details, no more specific remediation can be stated from the available information.