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Note: I tried to open the MSRC link you gave (Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center). I could not find any published advisory or public record for CVE‑2025‑55244 on Microsoft’s Update Guide or the major CVE/NVD indexes. Instead, Microsoft’s published Azure Bot Framework /...

China-linked state actors have spent the last several years systematically compromising backbone and edge networking equipment — from provider-edge routers to customer-facing devices — to build a global espionage capability that steals subscriber metadata, intercepts authentication traffic, and...

Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure...

This week’s wave of security headlines delivered a clear, uncomfortable message for Windows admins and security teams: the internet’s trust fabric is fraying in ways that let attackers hide inside legitimate flows — and Microsoft’s own infrastructure, link‑wrapping services, and even patch...

When a vendor-side advisory and a CVE identifier don’t line up, the first — and most important — job for defenders and researchers is to stop, verify, and update the record. I tried to open the MSRC page you gave (Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center) and could not find any...

CISA has formally added CVE-2025-54948 — a critical OS command injection in Trend Micro Apex One’s on‑premises Management Console — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation and triggering accelerated remediation expectations for federal...

Siemens' widely deployed use of Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime has again drawn scrutiny after a local privilege-escalation flaw (CVE-2025-47809) was published that can let an unprivileged user gain elevated access immediately after an unprivileged installation when the CodeMeter Control Center...

Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-53793 — Azure Stack Hub “Improper Authentication” Information Disclosure (what admins need to know and do) Lede Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53793 describing an “improper authentication” vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53783 as a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Teams that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network,” but the advisory page requires JavaScript and cannot be fully scraped by some automated tools; independent indexing of...

CVE-2025-53740 — Microsoft Office “use‑after‑free” (local code execution) An in‑depth feature for security teams, admins and threat hunters Summary (tl;dr) CVE-2025-53740 is reported by Microsoft as a use‑after‑free (CWE‑416) memory‑corruption flaw in Microsoft Office that can allow an attacker...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53765 describing an information disclosure vulnerability in Azure Stack Hub that can allow an authorized local actor to disclose private personal information; Microsoft’s advisory notes the issue specifically affects...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory listing CVE-2025-53739 — an Excel vulnerability described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’)” that can lead to code execution when a crafted spreadsheet is processed by the desktop client...

Headline: CVE-2025-53733 — What you need to know about the new Microsoft Word RCE caused by incorrect numeric conversions Lede: Microsoft has published advisory CVE-2025-53733 for a remote‑code‑execution class bug in Microsoft Office Word described as an “incorrect conversion between numeric...

Quick clarification before I write the 2,000+ word WindowsForum-style article: I searched the files you provided and they repeatedly reference a closely numbered Excel heap‑overflow CVE as CVE‑2025‑53741 (Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry) rather than CVE‑2025‑53737. c: CVE‑2025‑53737...

Below is a detailed Markdown article about CVE-2025-53732 (Microsoft Office — heap-based buffer overflow → remote code execution). It explains what the vulnerability is, how it can be abused, the likely impact, tactical detection and hunting guidance, step-by-step mitigation and patching...

Below is a plain‑language, technical, and operational writeup you can use to brief engineers, SOC, and leadership about CVE‑2025‑53728 (Microsoft Dynamics 365 — on‑premises) and what to do next. I’ve cited the vendor advisory you provided and independent sources where available, and I’ve...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-53731 as a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office — a use-after-free bug that can allow an attacker to execute code locally on an affected system when a specially crafted Office file is processed. The advisory classifies...

Headline: Urgent patch: CVE-2025-53145 — a type‑confusion RCE in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Summary / lede Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53145 — an access‑of‑resource using incompatible type (so‑called “type confusion”) vulnerability in Windows Message Queuing (MSMQ)...

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...

Below is a comprehensive technical brief on CVE-2025-53135 (DirectX Graphics Kernel — elevation of privilege via a race condition). I searched Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and the public vulnerability databases for corroborating information; where vendor-provided details are available I...