Title: CVE-2025-53791 — What Windows admins need to know about the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) “security feature bypass” (as of September 5, 2025)
Summary (short)
CVE-2025-53791 is tracked by Microsoft as a “Security Feature Bypass” in Microsoft Edge (Chromium‑based). Microsoft’s advisory...
Two German researchers demonstrated at Black Hat that an attacker with local administrative access can inject a malicious biometric template into Windows Hello for Business and sign in as another user with nothing more than their own face — a practical, low-noise bypass that undermines one of...
admin privileges
biometric templates
biometrics security
credential theft
device authentication
edrmonitoring
enhanced sign-in security
enterprise security
ess
faceplant
local admin rights
passwordless security
security architecture
security by design
tpm
virtualization security
wbs
windows biometric service
windows hello for business
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-50170, a local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver (cldflt.sys) that—when reached by a local, authorized attacker—can be abused to obtain higher privileges on affected machines. The flaw stems...