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CVE-2025-53142: Kernel Use-After-Free in Microsoft BFS Enables Local Privilege Escalation
Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-53142 describes a use‑after‑free flaw in the Microsoft Brokering File System that can allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on an affected Windows host — a classic kernel‑level memory corruption that deserves immediate attention...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-53141: Null Pointer in AFD.sys Enables Local SYSTEM Elevation (WinSock)
Microsoft’s advisory confirms that a null pointer dereference in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) can be triggered by a locally authorized attacker to elevate privileges to SYSTEM, creating a high-impact local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) risk for affected Windows...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-53140: KTM Kernel UAF Privilege Escalation - Patch Now
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE‑2025‑53140, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (KTM) that Microsoft says can be exploited by an authorized local attacker to elevate privileges on an affected system. Background /...- ChatGPT
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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...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-50168: Windows Win32K ICOMP Type-Confusion Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-50168 to a Windows kernel vulnerability in the Win32K ICOMP component described as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" that can allow an authorized local user to elevate privileges; Microsoft’s advisory is published in the Security...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-50159: Local Privilege Elevation in Windows PPP EAP-TLS
Microsoft’s security advisory confirms a use-after-free flaw in the Remote Access Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) EAP-TLS implementation that can allow an authorized local attacker to elevate privileges on affected Windows systems, and administrators must treat this as a priority patching and...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-47996: Windows MBT Transport Driver Integer Underflow Vulnerability & Security Fixes
An integer underflow vulnerability has been identified in the Windows MBT Transport driver, designated as CVE-2025-47996. This flaw allows authorized attackers to locally elevate their privileges, potentially compromising system integrity. Understanding Integer Underflow Integer underflow occurs...- ChatGPT
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Critical Windows Kernel Vulnerability CVE-2025-26636: How to Protect Your Systems
A new critical vulnerability has been revealed in the Windows operating system: CVE-2025-26636, classified as a Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This security flaw—emerging at a time when threats to core system components are becoming increasingly sophisticated—underscores...- ChatGPT
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Understanding and Mitigating CVE-2025-33055: Windows Storage Management Buffer Overread
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Windows Storage Management Provider, recently identified as CVE-2025-33055, has raised significant concerns for organizations and individuals relying on Microsoft's storage infrastructure tools. With Microsoft formally assigning the vulnerability a...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-24065: Critical Windows Storage Management Vulnerability & How to Protect
A new vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-24065 has emerged in the Windows ecosystem, impacting the Windows Storage Management Provider and raising fresh concerns about information security for millions of enterprise and consumer users alike. This flaw, described as an “information disclosure”...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-24069: Critical Windows Storage Management Info Disclosure & How to Protect Your Systems
In recent months, the Windows security landscape has been punctuated by a series of critical disclosures, but few have captured the attention of both IT professionals and enterprise security teams quite like CVE-2025-24069. This specific vulnerability, officially titled the "Windows Storage...- ChatGPT
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Understanding and Mitigating CVE-2025-47955: Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Privilege Escalation
Windows Remote Access Connection Manager sits at the heart of secure network connectivity for millions of enterprise and consumer devices, quietly negotiating VPN, dial-up, and direct access connections. However, with the disclosure of CVE-2025-47955—an elevation of privilege vulnerability...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-33059: Critical Windows Storage Management Info Disclosure Vulnerability
Information disclosure vulnerabilities have long posed significant risks in enterprise and consumer environments, particularly when they affect fundamental system services within Microsoft Windows. The recent emergence of CVE-2025-33059—a local information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-32706: Critical Windows Kernel Vulnerability in CLFS Driver Enables Privilege Escalation
The recent disclosure of CVE-2025-32706 spotlights a critical vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver, posing a significant threat of elevation of privilege attacks on affected systems. The vulnerability, stemming from improper input validation, fundamentally disrupts...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft’s April 2025 Windows Update Creates 'inetpub' Folder to Enhance Security—What You Need to Know
Microsoft's April 2025 cumulative Windows update, notably identified as KB5055523 for Windows 11 24H2, has stirred significant discussion in the tech community due to an unexpected and somewhat mysterious change: the automatic creation of an empty folder named "inetpub" on the system drive...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 April 2025 Patch Creates Inetpub Folder—Security Risks & Fixes
Microsoft's recent April 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11—specifically update KB5055523—introduced an unexpected yet purposeful change that has stirred curiosity and concern among users and IT professionals alike: the mysterious creation of an empty folder named inetpub on the system...- ChatGPT
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Understanding the Mysterious inetpub Folder in Windows 11: Update Insights
The Mysterious “inetpub” Folder: An Unexpected Windows 11 Quirk Windows 11 users have recently encountered an unexpected twist following the cumulative update KB5055523—a seemingly innocuous yet puzzling folder named “inetpub” appearing on the C drive. This odd discovery, highlighted by multiple...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11's inetpub Folder: Security Fix or Hidden Vulnerability? A Complete Guide
The recent emergence of the "inetpub" folder in Windows 11 systems has stirred a mix of curiosity and concern among users and IT professionals alike. Introduced as part of Microsoft's April 2025 cumulative update, this seemingly innocuous, empty directory located at the root of the system drive...- ChatGPT
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Critical Security Vulnerability CVE-2025-26665 in Windows upnphost.dll
An alarming security issue has emerged in Windows’ upnphost.dll, a core component responsible for UPnP functions, marking the discovery of CVE-2025-26665. This vulnerability, stemming from the improper locking of memory where sensitive data is stored, provides an authorized local attacker a...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-29804: Visual Studio Vulnerability Exploits Local Privilege Escalation
Improper access controls in widely used tools can sometimes be the Achilles’ heel of our most trusted development environments. In CVE-2025-29804, Visual Studio’s handling of local resources is coming under scrutiny. This vulnerability, which allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges...- ChatGPT
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