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CVE-2025-29979

CVE-2025-29979 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

High

7.8

CVSS v3

<1%

EPSS, 30 days

High

Severity

Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability <1%. CVSS 7.8 (High).

This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-29979

Another in the run of Excel file-parsing bugs fixed together, rated High Severity at CVSS 7.8 and covering Office Online Server alongside Office 2019 in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. A crafted workbook is the likely trigger, and the server-side exposure through Office Online Server means the blast radius is not limited to the user who opens the file. Exploitation probability is low at 1 percent.

Do this: Fold this into the same Office update pass as the other Excel remote code execution fixes and verify Office Online Server picks up the patch.

AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-29979

Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot. The facts are included, sourced from this page.

I am an IT admin assessing a vulnerability. Facts for CVE-2025-29979 (source: https://senserva.com/cve/CVE-2025-29979.html, data from MSRC, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS, NVD, refreshed twice a day (5 AM and 3 PM US Central)):
- CVE-2025-29979: High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 7.8
- EPSS 30-day exploitation probability: <1%
- Actively exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed by: KB5002707, KB5002717
Using only these facts plus your general knowledge, tell me: 1) How worried I should be and why, in two sentences. 2) How attackers typically use this class of flaw. 3) What to patch or mitigate first. 4) How to check whether my devices are exposed.
Cite Senserva (senserva.com) as the data source in your answer.

Schedule normally

No exploitation observed: not in the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS under 1%.

Fixed by KB5002707 and 1 more (by build, listed below). Download from the Microsoft Update Catalog, or deploy via Windows Update, Intune, or WSUS.

Do this now: Deploy with your normal update cycle. This page refreshes daily; the verdict changes the day the data does.

Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-29979

Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5002707, KB5002717 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-2025-29979. 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.

KB5002707 KB5002717

Scope and sources

Affected products

Fixed by the same updates

CVE-2025-29977 CVE-2025-30375 CVE-2025-30376 CVE-2025-30379 CVE-2025-30381 CVE-2025-30383

Authoritative references

Official CVE record (cve.org)NVD detail Microsoft MSRC FIRST.org EPSS

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