Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has cataloged CVE-2025-50155 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Push Notifications Apps component described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’).” The issue allows an authorized local attacker —...
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Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a new Kerberos vulnerability — CVE-2025-53779 — described as a relative path traversal flaw in Windows Kerberos that can be abused by an authorized attacker over a network to elevate privileges, and organizations that rely on Kerberos-based authentication...
Microsoft security telemetry and third‑party trackers identify a newly disclosed spoofing flaw in the Windows Security App that lets a locally authorized user manipulate file names or paths and present forged or misleading security UI and alerts — a vulnerability cataloged publicly under the...
CVE-2025-53740 — Microsoft Office “use‑after‑free” (local code execution)
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Summary (tl;dr)
CVE-2025-53740 is reported by Microsoft as a use‑after‑free (CWE‑416) memory‑corruption flaw in Microsoft Office that can allow an attacker...
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory listing CVE-2025-53739 — an Excel vulnerability described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” that can lead to code execution when a crafted spreadsheet is processed by the desktop client...
Microsoft has confirmed a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Visio — tracked as CVE‑2025‑53734 — that can be triggered when a user opens a specially crafted Visio file and may allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the current user; Microsoft’s advisory entry is live...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53736 as a Microsoft Word information-disclosure vulnerability caused by a buffer over-read in Word that can allow an unauthorized local actor to read memory and disclose sensitive information on a victim machine; administrators are strongly...
Microsoft has confirmed a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (tracked as CVE‑2025‑53735) that can lead to local code execution when a crafted spreadsheet is opened — a serious document‑based attack vector that demands immediate attention from IT teams and security‑minded users...
Headline: CVE-2025-53733 — What you need to know about the new Microsoft Word RCE caused by incorrect numeric conversions
Lede: Microsoft has published advisory CVE-2025-53733 for a remote‑code‑execution class bug in Microsoft Office Word described as an “incorrect conversion between numeric...
Below is a detailed Markdown article about CVE-2025-53732 (Microsoft Office — heap-based buffer overflow → remote code execution). It explains what the vulnerability is, how it can be abused, the likely impact, tactical detection and hunting guidance, step-by-step mitigation and patching...
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-53731 as a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office — a use-after-free bug that can allow an attacker to execute code locally on an affected system when a specially crafted Office file is processed. The advisory classifies...
Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53726 warns that a type‑confusion bug in the Windows Push Notifications stack can allow an authorized local user to elevate privileges to SYSTEM, and administrators must treat the advisory as a high‑priority patching item while hardening detection and...
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CVE-2025-48000 (note on numbering) — Windows Connected Devices Platform Service: use‑after‑free Elevation‑of‑Privilege
Subtitle: Patch now — local authenticated attackers can escalate to SYSTEM via CDPSvc memory corruption
Byline: Jane Doe — Senior Security Reporter, WindowsForum.com
Short...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-53718 describes a use‑after‑free (UAF) flaw in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that can be triggered by a locally authorized user to obtain elevated privileges on affected Windows hosts — a kernel‑level...
Title: New LSASS DoS (CVE-2025-53716) — What admins need to know now
By WindowsForum.com security desk — August 12, 2025
Summary
A null-pointer dereference vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) — tracked as CVE-2025-53716 in Microsoft’s Security Update...
Microsoft released KB5064010 on August 12, 2025 — a hotpatch targeted at Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 (OS Build 26100.4851) that delivers a focused set of security fixes designed to take effect without the usual reboot required by standard cumulative updates. (support.microsoft.com)...
Note: I couldn’t find any authoritative record for CVE-2025-53156 in the major public vulnerability databases (MSRC / NVD / MITRE / CVE.circl / CVE Details) as of August 12, 2025. The Storage Port Driver information-disclosure vulnerability widely reported in Microsoft’s June 2025 updates is...
Microsoft’s Security Response Guide flags a null-pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that, when reached by a local, authorized user, can be weaponized into an elevation‑of‑privilege to SYSTEM — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that demands...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE‑2025‑53151 as a use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows kernel that can be abused by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on an affected system, and Microsoft’s published advisory directs administrators to install the supplied security...
Microsoft has released patches for a kernel-mode flaw in the Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver—an exploitable heap-based buffer overflow that can allow a locally authorized attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM—though the CVE identifier you supplied (CVE-2025-53149) does not appear...