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Critical Bluetooth Flaw CVE-2025-27490 Patched: Full System Compromise Possible via Airborne Attack
Microsoft’s April 2025 Patch Tuesday included a fix for a critical Bluetooth elevation-of-privilege vulnerability, CVE-2025-27490, that allows an attacker within Bluetooth range to escalate...
Microsoft's Hidden PowerPoint Flaw: Why CVE-2025-54908 Evades Verification but Demands Action
A newly surfaced Microsoft advisory for CVE-2025-54908 warns of a use-after-free vulnerability in PowerPoint that could allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally. However, when security...
Microsoft Patches Excel Code Execution Flaw CVE-2025-54904, but Mac LTSC Still Exposed
Administrators scrambling to lock down Microsoft Excel against a newly disclosed code execution vulnerability have hit a snag: the security updates for Office LTSC for Mac 2021 and 2024 are not yet...
Urgent Excel Security Fix: Use-After-Free Bug Opens Door to Code Execution — Mac LTSC Patches Delayed
Microsoft has issued a security advisory for CVE-2025-54903, a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Excel that allows an attacker to execute code locally when a victim opens a...
Microsoft Warns of Actively Targeted Excel Use-After-Free Flaw CVE-2025-54896
Microsoft has issued a critical security advisory for CVE-2025-54896, a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on Windows...
Microsoft Patches Use-After-Free in Windows XAML DatePickerFlyout That Could Elevate Local Privileges
Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-54111 to a use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows UI XAML Phone DatePickerFlyout control, warning that an authenticated local attacker could exploit the flaw...
Windows CDPSvc Elevation Flaw (CVE-2025-54102) Patched; Attackers Could Seize SYSTEM Control
A high-severity vulnerability in the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc), cataloged as CVE-2025-54102, can be exploited by a low-privileged local attacker to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM...
Windows SMBv3 Vulnerability CVE-2025-54101 Could Let Attackers Remotely Execute Code
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows SMBv3 client could allow attackers to take full control of unpatched systems with nothing more than a network connection. Microsoft’s advisory,...
Google Rushes Chrome 140 Fix for CVE-2025-9864 V8 Memory Bug, Microsoft Edge Also Patched
Google has released a critical security update for its Chrome browser, patching a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine that could let attackers hijack systems...
Google Chrome 139.0.7258.127 Plugs Aura Use-After-Free (CVE-2025-8882) and Other High-Severity Bugs
Google has deployed a critical stable-channel update for Chrome, version 139.0.7258.127, closing a use-after-free vulnerability in the Aura UI component tracked as CVE-2025-8882. The patch also...
CISA Orders Patching of 2007 Excel Bug, 2013 IE Flaw, and 2025 WinRAR Zero-Day
On August 12, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog—two of them first disclosed during the...
Critical Word Flaw CVE-2025-53784 Lets Attackers Hijack PCs via Malicious Docs — Patch Immediately
Microsoft’s latest security advisory warns of a memory-corruption flaw in Word—CVE-2025-53784—that hands attackers a local-code-execution foothold from nothing more than a booby-trapped...