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    CVE-2023-4527: glibc DNS no-aaaa Read Overflow Patch and Mitigation

    A subtle change to glibc’s DNS stub resolver has had consequences that administrators and application developers should treat as more than an academic footnote: CVE-2023-4527 is a stack read overflow in getaddrinfo that can be triggered when the resolver is run in no-aaaa mode and a DNS response...
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    CVE-2025-59245 Elevation in SharePoint and Urgent Mitigation Guidance

    Microsoft’s advisory listing for CVE-2025-59245 describes an Elevation of Privilege issue in SharePoint Online that raises urgent operational and detection questions for administrators of Microsoft 365 tenants and hybrid SharePoint environments. The vulnerability’s public description centers on...
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    Urgent Chrome/Edge Patch for CVE-2025-10585: V8 Type Confusion

    Google pushed an emergency Chrome update to address CVE-2025-10585, a type confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that Google says is being actively exploited in the wild — and because Microsoft Edge is Chromium-based, Windows users and enterprises must confirm their Edge builds...
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    Westermo WeOS 5 OS Command Injection (CVE-2025-46418) - Risks & Mitigations

    Westermo’s WeOS 5 series has a newly disclosed high‑severity vulnerability that deserves immediate attention from industrial network operators and Windows network teams responsible for OT‑IT convergence, because it can be used to inject operating‑system commands when an attacker can reach an...
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    Critical Apache Vulnerabilities in Siemens OT Tools: SINEC NMS, SINEMA, RUGGEDCOM NMS

    Siemens has republished a critical advisory that pulls a spotlight back onto a cluster of high-severity Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities found embedded inside several Siemens industrial networking products — most notably RUGGEDCOM NMS, SINEC NMS, and SINEMA family components — and is urging...
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    CVE-2025-7746: XSS in Schneider Electric Altivar Drives—Fixes & Mitigations

    A newly disclosed Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑7746, affects a broad set of Schneider Electric Altivar drives and modules — including the ATVdPAC module (fixed in VW3A3530D version 25.0), multiple Altivar Process and Machine drives, and the ILC992 InterLink...
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    CVE-2025-48976 DoS in Siemens IEM-OS: No Patch, Migrate to IEM-V

    Siemens’ Industrial Edge Management OS (IEM‑OS) is exposed to a remotely exploitable denial‑of‑service condition tied to the Apache Commons FileUpload library (tracked as CVE‑2025‑48976), and the vendor’s published guidance makes clear that affected IEM‑OS installs — all reported versions — have...
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    September 2025 Patch Tuesday: 80+ CVEs, EoP/RCE Focus & HPC Risk

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday consolidates a large and varied set of fixes: Microsoft shipped updates covering roughly eighty CVEs across 15 product families, with a cluster of Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues dominating the tally and a small set of...
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    CVE-2024-21907: Upgrade Newtonsoft.Json to 13.0.1 to prevent DoS

    Newtonsoft.Json versions prior to 13.0.1 contain a well-documented flaw—tracked as CVE-2024-21907—where deeply nested or crafted JSON can force the library into a StackOverflow or resource‑exhaustion condition when parsing or serializing, producing a remote-denial‑of‑service (DoS) vector for...
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    Understanding CVE-2025-54915: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Defender Firewall Service

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...
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    CVE-2025-53810: Windows Local Privilege Escalation via Type Confusion in a Privileged Service

    Microsoft’s advisory classifies CVE-2025-53810 as a local elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) in a privileged Windows service that results from “access of resource using incompatible type” (a type‑confusion memory safety bug); Microsoft lists the issue in its Security Update Guide and recommends...
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    CVE-2025-27490: Windows Bluetooth Privilege Escalation - Threats, Fixes & Detection

    Thanks — quick clarification before I write the full article: I followed the MSRC link you gave and reached Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for that identifier. However, public vulnerability trackers and vendor advisories discussing the Windows Bluetooth Service elevation-of-privilege...
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    RRAS CVE-2025-53806: Windows VPN Memory Disclosure Patch

    A newly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) — tracked as CVE-2025-53806 in the Microsoft Security Response Center entry provided by the reporter — is an out‑of‑bounds read / buffer over‑read that can allow an attacker to obtain memory contents from an...
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    CVE-2025-55243 Spoofing in Microsoft OfficePlus: Quick Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-55243 as a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft OfficePlus that can lead to the exposure of sensitive information and enable an attacker to perform spoofing over a network, but key public mirrors and automated scrapers offer limited or inconsistent...
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    CVE-2025-55236: TOCTOU in Windows Graphics Kernel and Patch Guide

    A newly catalogued vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Kernel, tracked as CVE-2025-55236, is a time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that Microsoft warns can allow an authorized local attacker to execute code on an affected host; the vendor’s advisory identifies the flaw as a...
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    CVE-2025-55228: Windows GRFX Race Condition and Patch Guidance

    Microsoft’s security portal lists CVE-2025-55228 as a Windows Graphics Component issue in the Win32K — GRFX code path that can be abused by an authenticated local actor through a concurrency/race condition; the flaw is described as allowing execution of attacker-supplied code in kernel context...
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    Urgent Windows NTLM Patch: Improper Authentication and Privilege Elevation

    Microsoft’s advisory that an improper authentication vulnerability in Windows NTLM can let an authenticated actor elevate privileges over the network is the latest warning flag in a year already crowded with NTLM-related incidents and active exploitation chains. The vendor entry the user...
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    CVE-2025-54907: Visio Heap Overflow - Patch and Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54907, describing a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Visio that can allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code in the context of the user who opens a malicious file. This is a document‑parser...
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    CVE-2025-54904: Excel Use-After-Free Could Allow Local Code Execution

    Microsoft's advisory confirms a use‑after‑free flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a specially crafted spreadsheet is opened, creating a potentially serious escalation path on unpatched systems. Overview This vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2025‑54904, is listed in...
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    Verifying CVE-2025-54905: Office/Word Untrusted Pointer Dereference & Mitigations

    Thanks — I can write the 2,000+ word feature article, but first a quick verification step. I tried to load the MSRC page you linked but the Security Update Guide is rendered dynamically and I couldn’t extract the advisory text from that URL. I also could not find a matching CVE-2025-54905 entry...
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