Patch tracker / CVE reference / CVE-2025-29791
CVE-2025-29791
CVE-2025-29791 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 2 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
Risk summary
Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 1.1%. CVSS 7.8 (High).
This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
Standard-issue Excel remote code execution affecting Office 2019 and Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, High Severity at CVSS 7.8 with 1 percent EPSS and no KEV entry. Nothing about it stands out individually; its weight comes from being part of a broad batch of Office file-format fixes that should ship together.
Do this: Include this in the monthly Office rollout and verify completion with a patch compliance report.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-29791
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5002623, KB5002700 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-2025-29791. 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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