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CVE-2025-24993
CVE-2025-24993 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it in the wild, which makes it a fix-first item. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 16 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
Risk summary
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirmed exploited in the wild. EPSS exploit probability 59%. CVSS 7.8 (High).
This CVE is among the top half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability, and one of 7 actively-exploited CVEs in March 2025.
CVE-2025-24993 is a heap-based overflow in the Windows NTFS driver that lets an attacker run code by getting a user to mount a crafted virtual hard disk, so exposure hinges on file system handling rather than network exposure. It affects Windows 10 Version 1809 and Windows Server 2019, and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-11 with a 59 percent EPSS score, so active exploitation is confirmed. The 8.8 CVSS rating combined with user-triggered VHD mounting makes this a realistic phishing-to-code-execution path.
Do this: Deploy the March 2025 Windows security update to all Windows 10 1809 and Server 2019 hosts and warn users not to mount VHD or ISO files from untrusted sources.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-24993
Treat as urgent: it is being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV), so patch ahead of items that are not. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5053594, KB5053596, KB5053598, KB5053599, KB5053602, KB5053603, KB5053606, KB5053618, KB5053620, KB5053627, KB5053636, KB5053638, KB5053886, KB5053887, KB5053888, KB5053995 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.
Apply the Microsoft security updates below to fix CVE-2025-24993. Each KB page carries the Microsoft Update Catalog download, Microsoft's known issues for the update, a copy-paste PowerShell check for whether it is installed, and the Senserva AI read.
Scope and sources
- Affected products
- Fixed by the same updates
- Authoritative references
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