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    SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Fix (CVE-2025-53727) Amid CVE-2025-55227 Confusion

    Microsoft’s advisory URL for CVE-2025-55227 does not resolve to a public advisory, and the identifier CVE-2025-55227 cannot be located in Microsoft’s Security Update Guide or the major vulnerability databases; the evidence available instead points to a closely related Microsoft SQL Server...
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    CVE-2025-55224: Windows Win32K GRFX Race Condition and Local EoP Patch Guide

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-55224 describes a concurrency flaw in the Windows kernel graphics component (Win32K — GRFX) that can be manipulated by an authorized local actor to gain code execution or elevate privileges on an affected system; the bug is a race condition (improper...
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    CVE-2025-54911: High-Impact BitLocker Local Privilege Escalation (UAF)

    Microsoft’s security update guide lists CVE‑2025‑54911 as a use‑after‑free defect in Windows BitLocker that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected machines, creating a high‑impact local elevation‑of‑privilege risk that administrators must treat as urgent...
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    Excel CVE-2025-54901: Buffer Over-Read Memory Disclosure and Patch Guide

    Microsoft’s advisory classifies CVE-2025-54901 as a buffer over-read (out‑of‑bounds read) in Microsoft Office Excel that can disclose process memory contents when a crafted spreadsheet is opened. Executive summary What it is: CVE-2025-54901 is an information‑disclosure vulnerability in...
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    Patch Now: Windows Hyper-V Race Condition Elevates Privileges (CVE-2025-54115)

    Microsoft’s terse advisory that “concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (‘race condition’) in Windows Hyper‑V allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally” is the single-line summary administrators need to treat as urgent: this is a Hyper‑V race...
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    CVE-2025-54112: Local Privilege Escalation in VHD/VHDX Parsing

    Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists CVE-2025-54112 as a vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) handling code that can be abused by an authorized local attacker to achieve elevation of privilege on Windows hosts, a condition vendors and incident responders classify as...
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    MapUrlToZone Path Equivalence: Windows Security Bypass Explained

    Windows’ long-standing URL zoning system has been shown to contain a dangerous weakness: an improper resolution of path equivalence in the MapUrlToZone API that can allow an attacker to bypass security zoning and make remote or network resources appear more trusted than they are. Overview...
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    CVE-2025-54105: Local Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft BFS (Brokering File System)

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54105 — a local elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Brokering File System (BFS) caused by a concurrency bug (race condition) that can be exploited by an authenticated local user to gain elevated rights on the host...
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    CVE-2025-54094: Type-Confusion in Windows Defender Firewall Service Enables Local EoP

    Microsoft’s security advisory for CVE-2025-54094 identifies a type‑confusion flaw in the Windows Defender Firewall Service that can be triggered by an authorized local actor to perform a local Elevation of Privilege (EoP) — in short, an attacker with the ability to run code as a non‑privileged...
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    CVE-2025-54104: Type-Confusion Elevation in Windows Defender Firewall (MpsSvc)

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records CVE-2025-54104 as an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service caused by an “access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” — in short, a type‑confusion bug in a privileged service that an authorized...
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    CVE-2025-53808: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows Defender Firewall

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53808 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service that stems from an “access of resource using incompatible type” (commonly called type confusion), and the vendor warns that a locally authorized attacker...
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    CVE-2025-53807: Patch, Detect, and Defend Against Windows Graphics EoP

    Below is a long-form, operationally focused feature article about the vulnerability you cited. It summarizes what is known, flags what I could not independently corroborate, cross‑references multiple vendor sources, and gives prioritized, actionable remediation, detection, and incident‑response...
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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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    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-2025-54903: Excel Use-After-Free Local RCE — Patch Now

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54903, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a victim opens a specially crafted spreadsheet — a document‑based remote code execution (RCE) risk that should be treated as high priority for both...
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    CVE-2025-54899: Excel memory-safety flaw enabling local code execution - patch now

    Microsoft’s security tracker now lists CVE-2025-54899 as a memory-safety flaw in Microsoft Excel that can lead to local code execution when a crafted spreadsheet is opened — an entry that joins a steady stream of Excel parsing bugs that remain a favored initial-access vector for attackers...
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    Windows CDPSvc Use-After-Free Elevation to SYSTEM (CVE-2025-54102) – Patch Now

    A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) has been cataloged by Microsoft as an elevation‑of‑privilege issue that can let an authorized, local attacker escalate to SYSTEM, and administrators should treat it as a high‑priority patching item while...
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    RRAS CVE-2025-54095: Network-based memory disclosure in Windows RRAS

    Microsoft’s Security Response Center lists CVE-2025-54095 as an out-of-bounds read in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can disclose memory contents to a remote attacker over the network. (msrc.microsoft.com) Background / Overview Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)...
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    Urgent Patch Alert: Optix MQTT RCE CVE-2025-9161 in FactoryTalk Optix

    Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix has a newly publicized vulnerability that demands immediate attention from OT and IT teams: a lack of URI sanitization in the product’s embedded MQTT broker allows remote loading of Mosquitto plugins and can lead to remote code execution (RCE), affecting...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878: No fleet SSD bricking, Microsoft and Phison say

    Microsoft says the recent reports that a Windows 11 cumulative update “bricked” consumer SSDs are not supported by its telemetry and lab findings, and vendor testing so far has failed to reproduce a fleet‑level failure tied to the August servicing wave tracked as KB5063878. Background The story...
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