Microsoft Windows: 2 exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24990, CVE-2025-59230)
Microsoft Windows
CVE-2025-24990: Microsoft Windows Agere Modem Driver contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges. CVE-2025-59230: Microsoft Windows contains an improper access control vulnerability in Windows Remote Access Connection Manager which could allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-14.
Why this severity: CVSS 7.8 (CNA, v3.1); actively exploited (CISA KEV)
- Started
- Oct 14, 2025
- Closed
- Oct 14, 2025
Affected
- See vendor advisory / CISA notes (versions not always listed in KEV feed)
Fixed in
- See vendor advisory linked in sources
Timeline2
CISA added CVE-2025-24990 to the KEV catalog (due 2025-11-04).
CISA added CVE-2025-59230 to the KEV catalog (due 2025-11-04).
Advisories5
Notes & caveats
Derived from CISA KEV JSON feed catalogVersion 2026.10.21. CVSS from the CVE record (cvelistV5). Exact affected/fixed version strings are not always in the KEV record; verify against the vendor advisory URL. startedAt uses dateAdded (exploitation may have begun earlier; many entries are older CVEs newly confirmed as exploited in 2025).
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