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CVE-2025-49739: Critical Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio
An elevation of privilege vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Visual Studio, designated as CVE-2025-49739. This flaw arises from improper link resolution before file access, commonly referred to as 'link following,' which could allow an unauthorized attacker to escalate privileges...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-48384: Critical Git Vulnerability Exploiting Line-Endings & Symlink Manipulation
When a stray carriage return character can undermine the integrity of one the world’s most relied-upon version control tools, the stakes of meticulous config handling in Git become instantly clear. CVE-2025-48384 exposes exactly such a gap: a subtle, yet potentially dangerous vulnerability...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-27614: Critical Gitk Vulnerability and Its Impact on Dev Security
Gitk, a popular graphical repository browser bundled with Git, has long served developers as an intuitive and powerful way to inspect version history, review changes, and visualize branching workflows. However, in recent months, a significant vulnerability—CVE-2025-27614—has been disclosed...- ChatGPT
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Critical Chrome Vulnerability CVE-2025-6555: How to Protect Your Browser Today
A recent security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-6555, has been discovered in Google Chrome's animation component. This "use after free" flaw allows remote attackers to potentially exploit heap corruption through specially crafted HTML pages. The vulnerability affects Chrome versions...- ChatGPT
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Understanding CVE-2025-47968: How Microsoft AutoUpdate Flaw Poses Privilege Escalation Risks
Improper input validation remains a persistent and dangerous security concern even among well-established applications, and the recent CVE-2025-47968 affecting Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) underscores the ongoing risks faced by both enterprise and personal users. Microsoft AutoUpdate, responsible...- ChatGPT
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Critical CVE-2025-47162 Vulnerability in Microsoft Office: Protect Your Systems Now
A critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-47162, has been discovered in Microsoft Office, posing significant security risks to users worldwide. This flaw is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows unauthorized attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Given the widespread...- ChatGPT
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Windows Installer Vulnerability CVE-2025-32714: Critical Privilege Escalation Alert
Windows Installer, long regarded as a core component of the Microsoft Windows operating system, is once again under the cybersecurity spotlight. A recent vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32714, has surfaced, revealing an elevation of privilege issue rooted in improper access control. As...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-5067: Critical Chromium Browser Vulnerability & How to Protect Your System
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying informed about vulnerabilities is paramount for both individual users and organizations. One such recent concern is the security flaw identified as CVE-2025-5067, which pertains to an inappropriate implementation within the Tab Strip...- ChatGPT
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CVE-2025-5283: Critical libvpx Video Codec Vulnerability in Chrome and Edge
In May 2025, a critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-5283 was discovered in the libvpx library, a widely used open-source video codec developed by Google and the Alliance for Open Media. This vulnerability, classified as a "use after free" flaw, poses significant risks to users...- ChatGPT
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Understanding CVE-2025-32703: Critical Info Disclosure Vulnerability in Visual Studio
An insidious new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-32703, has been disclosed in Microsoft Visual Studio, one of the most widely used integrated development environments for Windows and cross-platform development. This information disclosure flaw, rooted in insufficient access control...- ChatGPT
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Urgent Windows 11 Security Alert: Update Your Install Media to Prevent Vulnerability Exploits
A chill just swept through the IT department, and it’s not from the air conditioning—Microsoft’s waving the red flag over a critical flaw in Windows 11 version 24H2, prompting the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to blast a security alert reminiscent of a fire drill, minus the free...- ChatGPT
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AA20-275A: Potential for China Cyber Response to Heightened U.S.–China Tensions
Original release date: October 1, 2020 Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. In light of heightened tensions between the United States and...- News
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MS16-146 - Critical: Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component (3204066) - Version: 1.0
Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user either visits a specially crafted website or...- News
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3119884 - Inadvertently Disclosed Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing - Version: 1.0
Revision Note: V1.0 (November 30, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is aware of unconstrained digital certificates from Dell Inc. for which the private keys were inadvertently disclosed. One of these unconstrained certificates could be used to issue other certificates, impersonate...- News
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MS15-088 - Important: Unsafe Command Line Parameter Passing Could Allow Information...
Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 11, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update helps to resolve an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. To exploit the vulnerability an attacker would first have to...- News
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Driving a Collectively Stronger Security Community with Microsoft Interflow
Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the private preview of Link Removed, a security and threat information exchange platform for analysts and researchers working in cybersecurity. Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security...- News
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