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.
Background
Microsoft’s hotpatch...
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...
Headline: Urgent patch: CVE-2025-53145 — a type‑confusion RCE in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Summary / lede
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53145 — an access‑of‑resource using incompatible type (so‑called “type confusion”) vulnerability in Windows Message Queuing (MSMQ)...
A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — tracked as CVE-2025-53147 — can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate privileges to a higher level on affected Windows systems by forcing the kernel driver to operate on freed memory...
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53144, a vulnerability in Windows Message Queuing (MSMQ) described as an access of resource using incompatible type (a type confusion) that can allow an authorized attacker to execute code over a network; administrators should treat it as...
CVE-2025-53143 — What Windows administrators need to know about the new MSMQ “type confusion” RCE
Summary (tl;dr)
Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-53143: an access-of-resource-using-incompatible-type (a “type confusion”) bug in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) that can...
Title: What sysadmins need to know about the WinSock AFD race-condition EoP entry you sent (CVE-2025-53134) — situation, risk, and what to do now
Executive summary
You sent the MSRC URL for CVE-2025-53134 (Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock — race condition / improper synchronization...
Microsoft's Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53136 as a Windows NT OS Kernel information disclosure vulnerability that can allow an authorized local attacker to read sensitive kernel-resident data after certain processor optimizations remove or modify security‑critical code paths. The...
Note — quick verification before I start
I checked public vulnerability databases and Microsoft’s Security Update Guide but could not find any record for the exact identifier CVE‑2025‑53133. Microsoft and NVD list several recent PrintWorkflowUserSvc issues (for example CVE‑2024‑49095 and a pair...
Title: CVE-2025-53131 — What Windows admins need to know about the new Windows Media RCE (heap-based buffer overflow)
Summary (TL;DR)
CVE-2025-53131 is a heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Media components that can allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code over a...
CVE-2025-50176 — DirectX Graphics Kernel Type‑Confusion RCE
Author: Security Analysis Desk — August 12, 2025
TL;DR
CVE-2025-50176 is a type‑confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl / DirectX graphics subsystem) that Microsoft categorizes as enabling local...
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...
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) — tracked as CVE-2025-50166 — stems from an integer overflow or wraparound in the MSDTC code path and can allow an authorized attacker to disclose memory-resident information over a network connection...
A critical heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) — tracked as CVE-2025-50160 by Microsoft — allows an attacker who can reach a vulnerable RRAS instance over the network to achieve remote code execution in the context of the service, with the potential...
Microsoft's security update for a Windows File Explorer flaw underscores a long-standing risk vector: trusted UI components that implicitly parse untrusted content. In March 2025 Microsoft disclosed and patched a Windows File Explorer spoofing vulnerability that could cause Explorer to...
A recently published Microsoft advisory warns that CVE-2025-49762 — a race-condition flaw in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) — can allow a locally authorized attacker to elevate privileges by exploiting concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper...
Title: CVE-2025-53761 — Use‑After‑Free in Microsoft PowerPoint (Local Code Execution) — What defenders need to know now
Summary (TL;DR)
Microsoft lists CVE-2025-53761 as a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.”...