vulnerability
Windows, Linux, Android File Notification Systems Leak User Activity
LowCVSS 2.5
Summary
Researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria have demonstrated that file notification systems in Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS can be abused to monitor user activity. While Microsoft claims this is not a security vulnerability and that it requires an attacker to already have local code execution capabilities, a patch is available for the most severe Linux issues (CVE-2025-68788).
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