cve-2025-50173

  1. September 2025 Windows Patch: UAC Refinement, NDI Fix, and MSI SecureRepair Whitelist

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a surgical corrective: the cumulative updates released on September 9, 2025 refine the User Account Control (UAC) behavior introduced in August and restore expected installer and streaming behavior while preserving the security hardening that closed...
  2. September Patch Tuesday Fixes UAC/MSI and NDI Regressions in Windows

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday has quietly closed two disruptive Windows regressions introduced in August — one that interfered with MSI-based app installs by unexpectedly surfacing User Account Control (UAC) prompts for standard users, and another that crippled NDI-based streaming...
  3. August 2025 Windows Installer Hardening Triggers UAC Prompts and MSI 1730 Errors

    Microsoft’s August 2025 security rollup hardened Windows Installer to close a privilege‑escalation hole, but the change has also begun prompting unexpected User Account Control (UAC) credential requests and breaking app installations for standard (non‑administrator) users across many Windows...
  4. MSI Hardening Triggers UAC Prompts After Aug 2025 Update (CVE-2025-50173)

    Microsoft has confirmed a new compatibility problem that emerged after the August 12, 2025 cumulative security updates: a Windows Installer hardening intended to close a privilege‑escalation hole (tracked as CVE‑2025‑50173) is now triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts for...
  5. August 2025 Windows Installer Rollup: Security Hardened, Per-User Repairs Elevate

    Microsoft’s August security rollup intended to close a Windows Installer privilege‑escalation hole but instead changed repair semantics in a way that makes many standard (non‑admin) users see unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts or fail with MSI Error 1730 when launching applications...
  6. Windows 11 August 2025 KB5063878: WSUS 0x80240069 Fix and NVMe Storage Mystery

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 — has become the subject of two very different but intersecting headaches: an enterprise deployment regression that broke WSUS/SCCM installs (error 0x80240069) and a cluster of...
  7. August 2025 Windows Update Hardens Windows Installer, Triggers UAC Prompts for Non-Admins

    Microsoft’s August cumulative update intended to close a Windows Installer privilege‑escalation hole instead tightened the User Account Control (UAC) rules so aggressively that standard (non‑administrator) users now see unexpected UAC prompts and, in many cases, cannot complete everyday app...
  8. August 2025 Windows Installer UAC Prompts Break Silent MSI Repairs (CVE-2025-50173)

    Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update introduced a security hardening to Windows Installer that is triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and breaking silent MSI repair/configuration flows for standard (non‑administrator) users across a...
  9. Windows 11 August 2025 KB5063878: MSI hardening, UAC prompts, and KIR mitigations

    Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 — delivered as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — introduced a security hardening to Windows Installer that closed a real privilege-escalation risk but also changed how MSI “self‑repair” and per‑user configuration flows behave, leading...
  10. August 2025 Windows Installer Hardening: UAC Prompts, MSI 1730 & CVE-2025-50173

    Microsoft’s August security hardening that patched a Windows Installer flaw has closed a real attack vector — but it also introduced a compatibility headache that is prompting UAC credential prompts and outright failures in environments that rely on per‑user MSI repair and advertising flows. The...
  11. Windows August 2025 Updates: UAC Prompts, MSI 1730, CVE-2025-50173 Mitigations

    Microsoft has acknowledged a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 cumulative Windows updates that can cause unexpected User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompts and MSI Error 1730 failures for non‑administrator users when applications trigger Windows Installer (MSI)...
  12. KB5063878 UAC/MSI Regression: Mitigations, KIR, and Enterprise Patch Strategy

    Microsoft has confirmed and mitigated a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 security update KB5063878 that caused unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and failed repairs for applications using Windows Installer (MSI), with the Windows Server 2025 release-health...
  13. KB5063878 Windows Installer Hardening: UAC, MSI Self-Repair, and CVE-2025-50173

    Microsoft’s August cumulative update chain, notably KB5063878, introduced a hardening to Windows Installer that has forced a rethink of how User Account Control (UAC) and MSI "self‑repair" flows behave — and that hardening, while closing a real security gap (tracked as CVE‑2025‑50173), has also...
  14. August 2025 Windows Update Breaks Per-User MSI Installations: Mitigations & KIR

    Microsoft's August 2025 cumulative updates have produced a high‑profile compatibility regression that prevents many non‑administrator users from completing per‑user MSI installations and self‑repairs, prompting emergency mitigations from Microsoft and a wave of operational guidance for IT teams...
  15. August 2025 Windows Update Regression: UAC Prompts, MSI 1730, CVE-2025-50173

    Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative updates — most notably KB5063878 for Windows 11 (OS Build 26100.4946) and companion packages for Windows 10 and Windows Server — introduced a UAC-related regression that prevents many non‑administrator users from performing routine...
  16. CVE-2025-50173: Windows Installer Local EoP — What Admins Must Do Now

    Title: CVE‑2025‑50173 — Windows Installer “Weak Authentication” Elevation‑of‑Privilege: What admins need to know and do now Summary Microsoft lists CVE‑2025‑50173 as an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in Windows Installer. The vendor description summarizes the issue as “weak authentication...