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Aakash Rahsi
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CVE-2025-60710 | Host Process for Windows Tasks Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

When the Host Process for Windows Tasks becomes an elevation bridge instead of a controlled boundary, every scheduled task becomes a potential privilege path.

CVE-2025-60710 is not just another EoP vulnerability. It exposes how fragile Windows task orchestration really is across servers, Azure-connected workloads, and hybrid estates.

What Makes CVE-2025-60710 Significant

  • The process taskhostw.exe becomes an unintended elevation surface.
  • User-level scheduled tasks can pivot into system-level authority.
  • Hybrid estates amplify the blast radius because Windows tasks interact with Azure Arc, Intune, Defender, and Entra ID.

Governance Impact

First-class security surfaces

Scheduled tasks must be treated as primary security boundaries.

Pivot awareness

Understand which low-priv tasks can escalate into system privileges.

Cloud-aligned detection

Ensure Defender for Endpoint, Intune, Entra ID, Azure Arc, and GPO baselines detect privilege escalation attempts inside task activity.

Evidence-grade compliance

Produce patch verification, privilege mapping, task boundary audits, and EoP telemetry evidence that stands up to audits.

Why This Matters in 2025

CVE-2025-60710 aligns with a broader pattern:

  1. A low-privilege user runs a scheduled task
  2. The Host Process elevates incorrectly
  3. System-level access is gained
  4. Lateral movement piggybacks on scheduled tasks
  5. Azure-connected services inherit the elevation

This becomes a distributed privilege cascade across a hybrid environment.

What the Full Analysis Covers

  • How CVE-2025-60710 changes the elevation-of-privilege threat model
  • Real blast zones inside Windows Task infrastructure
  • How hybrid orchestration interacts with identity and workload security
  • Why patching alone is not enough
  • Evidence requirements for proving governance
  • Why every scheduled task is either part of your control plane or an attacker’s exploit chain

Read the complete analysis:

https://www.aakashrahsi.online/post/cve-2025-60710

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