Siemens’ cloud-hosted SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service (SIVaaS) has been found to expose a network share without authentication — a configuration defect that Siemens has cataloged as CVE-2025-40804 and scored as critical (CVSS v3.1 = 9.1; CVSS v4 = 9.3). This flaw allows unauthenticated...
September’s Patch Tuesday delivered a predictable mix of Windows fixes and the usual Office headaches — but this month the spotlight belongs to SAP, where a string of actively exploited and high-severity NetWeaver flaws demand an urgent, prioritized response from enterprise teams.
Background...
Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday shipped a wide-ranging set of fixes addressing 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, virtualization, and platform components — with eight rated Critical and 72 rated Important — and included several high-profile fixes for SMB, NTLM, NTFS, Office, SharePoint...
Newtonsoft.Json versions prior to 13.0.1 contain a well-documented flaw—tracked as CVE-2024-21907—where deeply nested or crafted JSON can force the library into a StackOverflow or resource‑exhaustion condition when parsing or serializing, producing a remote-denial‑of‑service (DoS) vector for...
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...
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has cataloged CVE-2025-54915 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Defender Firewall Service described as “Access of resource using incompatible type (‘type confusion’),” and the vendor advises that an authorized local attacker could...
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...
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...
Improper access control in Windows MultiPoint Services (CVE-2025-54116) allows a locally authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on an affected host. Executive summary
What it is: CVE-2025-54116 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows MultiPoint Services...
Microsoft released a hotpatch—KB5065474—on September 9, 2025, for Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 that updates eligible devices to OS Build 26100.6508 and delivers targeted security and quality fixes while calling attention to an important Secure Boot certificate expiration window and a specific...
A newly disclosed race‑condition vulnerability in the Windows Capability Access Management Service (camsvc) can be abused by a local attacker to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on unpatched hosts, and organizations should treat the advisory as a high‑priority patching event for affected Windows...
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. Background
The...
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...
application control
cve-2025-54094
defense in depth
edr
local attack
local eop
memory safety
mpssvc
msrc
patch management
privilege
privilege escalation
risk assessment
security advisory
type confusion
vulnerability
windows defender firewall
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...
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53801: an untrusted pointer dereference in the Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected systems. The flaw resides in DWM’s memory handling and, when...
Microsoft’s advisory identifies CVE-2025-53803 as a Windows Kernel memory information disclosure vulnerability: an error message generated by kernel code can contain sensitive kernel memory contents, allowing an authenticated local actor to read data that should remain protected.
Background
The...
cve-2025-53803
cybersecurity
edr
information disclosure
kaslr
kernel
local access
local exploit
memory disclosure
microsoft advisory
patch
patch management
privilege escalation
security patch
vulnerability
windows
windows kernel
CVE-2025-49692 Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Overview
What happened: Microsoft has posted an advisory for CVE‑2025‑49692 describing an improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Windows Virtual Machine) Agent that can allow an...
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) advisory describes CVE-2025-47997 as a concurrency (race‑condition) information‑disclosure flaw in Microsoft SQL Server that can be triggered by an authorized user and may allow sensitive memory or data to be leaked over the network; administrators...
Microsoft has published an advisory identifying CVE-2025-55317, a local elevation-of-privilege flaw in Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) caused by improper link resolution before file access — commonly described as a link-following or symlink/junction weakness — that can allow an authorized local...
cve-2025-55317
cybersecurity
endpoint security
hardening
link following
local exploit
macos
mau
microsoft autoupdate
msrc
patch management
privilege
privilege escalation
reparse point
security advisory
symlinks
threat detection
update agent
vulnerability
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-55243 as a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft OfficePlus that can lead to the exposure of sensitive information and enable an attacker to perform spoofing over a network, but key public mirrors and automated scrapers offer limited or inconsistent...