threat-hunting

  1. CVE-2025-55319: Agentic AI in VS Code and the Path to RCE - Dev Guidance

    Title: CVE-2025-55319 — When Agentic AI Meets VS Code: How AI “agents” can open a path to remote code execution (and what developers must do now) Executive summary Microsoft’s Security Response Center lists CVE-2025-55319 as a vulnerability affecting agentic AI integrations and Visual Studio...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. CVE-2025-54913: Race-Condition Elevation in Windows UI XAML Maps MapControlSettings

    CVE-2025-54913 — Windows UI XAML Maps (MapControlSettings) Race-condition elevation-of-privilege: what admins, developers, and defenders need to know Summary What it is: CVE-2025-54913 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows UI XAML Maps component (MapControlSettings). The...
  8. CERT-In Warns of Broad Microsoft Vulnerabilities—Patch Now Across Windows and Cloud

    India’s national cybersecurity agency has issued a high‑severity warning about a broad set of vulnerabilities across Microsoft products — a multi‑component risk that demands immediate patching and tighter operational controls from both home users and enterprise IT teams. Background / Overview...
  9. CVE-2025-55229: Windows certificate spoofing explained for admins

    Urgent: What CVE-2025-55229 Means for Windows — A Deep Dive for Admins and Power Users By WindowsForum.com Staff Reporter — August 21, 2025 Summary — quick take Microsoft has published a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-55229 that affects Windows certificate handling: an improper verification...
  10. CVE-2025-43300: Apple Image I/O Zero-Day Triggers CISA KEV Patch Rush

    CISA’s addition of a single entry to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog this week — CVE-2025-43300, an out‑of‑bounds write in Apple’s Image I/O framework — sharpens the spotlight on a zero‑day that Apple says was exploited in highly targeted attacks and underscores how quickly...
  11. Cisco FMC CVE-2025-20265: Pre-Auth RADIUS RCE Patch for Secure Firewall Management

    Cisco has pushed an urgent patch for a maximum‑severity remote code execution flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands on affected appliances when RADIUS authentication is enabled for...
  12. CVE-2025-53719: RRAS Info-Disclosure—Patch and Contain Now

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53719 describes an information‑disclosure bug in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) caused by the use of an uninitialized resource, and administrators should treat any RRAS host exposed to untrusted networks as high priority for inspection and...
  13. CVE-2025-53137: Windows AFD.sys Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation

    A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys), tracked as CVE-2025-53137, can be abused by an authorized local user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on affected Windows hosts — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that follows a string of similar AFD...
  14. CVE-2025-53761: PowerPoint Use-After-Free — Defender's Quick Guide

    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.”...
  15. CVE-2025-53770: SharePoint ToolShell RCE Exploit — Timeline, Impact, Mitigations

    Thanks — quick clarification before I start the 2,000+ word feature. I searched public sources and could not find any authoritative record for CVE-2025-53760. The Microsoft SharePoint incident widely reported in July–August 2025 is CVE-2025-53770 (aka “ToolShell”) — a deserialization / RCE chain...