threat hunting

  1. CVE-2025-54906: Office Memory-Allocation RCE Risk and Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54906, a Microsoft Office vulnerability described as a “free of memory not on the heap” condition that can lead to local remote‑code‑execution (RCE) when a user opens or previews a specially crafted Office document; Microsoft lists the...
  2. Urgent: Patch SharePoint On-Prem RCE via Deserialization Chain (CVE-2025-53770)

    Microsoft’s SharePoint on-premises ecosystem is once again at the center of a high-risk security incident: an untrusted-deserialization remote code execution (RCE) class of weaknesses is being actively exploited against internet-facing SharePoint Server deployments, and an exact CVE identifier...
  3. CVE-2025-54896: Excel Use-After-Free RCE — Patch Now

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-54896: a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that, when exploited via a specially crafted workbook, can lead to code execution in the context of the user who opens the file. This class of bug is a recurring and high-consequence...
  4. CVE-2025-54895: Local Privilege Escalation in Windows NEGOEX/SPNEGO

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-54895 warns that an integer overflow or wraparound in the SPNEGO Extended Negotiation (NEGOEX) security mechanism can be triggered by an authorized local actor to elevate privileges, turning a legitimate local account into a pathway to SYSTEM-level control if...
  5. CVE-2025-54099: Windows AFD.sys Stack Overflow Privilege Escalation Explained

    Microsoft’s advisory identifies a vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (afd.sys) that can be triggered locally to escalate privileges — described on the vendor page as a buffer overflow in the WinSock ancillary driver — and administrators must treat this as a...
  6. ThinManager SSRF CVE-2025-9065: Patch to v14.1 and OT security best practices

    Rockwell Automation’s ThinManager has been flagged for a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaw that can expose an industrial control system’s ThinServer service account NTLM credentials, according to a federal advisory reissued on September 9, 2025. The vulnerability—tracked...
  7. MSRC Advisory Deep Dive: Mitigation, Detection, and Hunting Windows Exploits

    Thanks — I can write the 2,000+ word, in-depth feature article in rich Markdown for WindowsForum.com. Before I start, two quick clarifying questions so I match your needs exactly: 1) Do you want the article to be strictly based on Microsoft’s advisory at the MSRC link you provided, or do you...
  8. Dynamics 365 FastTrack Info-Disclosure: CVE-2025-49715 Advisory

    Microsoft has published an advisory for an information‑disclosure flaw affecting Dynamics 365 FastTrack Implementation Assets that can allow an attacker to disclose private personal information over a network — but the public record and vendor sources show a mismatch in the CVE identifier, so...
  9. CVE-2025-55242: Xbox Info-Disclosure - What Admins Must Do Now

    Title: CVE-2025-55242 — "Xbox Certification Bug / Copilot Django" Information-Disclosure: what admins need to know and do now TL;DR Microsoft has published a Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-55242 describing an information‑disclosure bug that can cause the exposure of sensitive...
  10. Clarifying CVE-2025-55244: Azure Bot Service EoP Advisories (CVE-2025-30389/30392)

    Note: I tried to open the MSRC link you gave . 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 / Azure Bot Service elevation‑of‑privilege advisories are...
  11. China-Linked APT Attacks Target Core Routers: CVEs, Persistence, and Mitigations

    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...
  12. 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...
  13. Metadata-Driven Zero-Trust MLOps on Azure with Entra ID, Key Vault & Private Link

    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...
  14. Mitigating Malvertising and AI-Driven Threats: Windows Security in 2025

    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...
  15. 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...
  16. PC Manager Local Privilege Escalation: Patch, Detect, and Hunt (2025)

    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 and could not find any public advisory, nor could I find any authoritative...
  17. 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...
  18. CISA Adds CVE-2025-54948 to KEV: Trend Micro Apex One OS Command Injection

    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...
  19. 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...
  20. CodeMeter CVE-2025-47809 Privilege Escalation: Siemens/ICS Patch Guide

    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...