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CVE-2025-53786
CVE-2025-53786 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.0. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy one of the 4 updates below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.
High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 8.0. Fixed by 4 Microsoft security updates.
Risk summary
Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-53786
CVE-2025-53786 lets an attacker who already controls an on-premises Exchange server pivot into the connected Exchange Online tenant because hybrid deployments share a trust and service principal across both. This hits organizations still running Exchange Server Subscription Edition RTM, 2019 CU15, or 2016 CU23 in a hybrid configuration, which is the common posture during cloud migration. It is not yet in CISA KEV and EPSS sits at 7 percent, but the on-prem to cloud identity crossover makes containment harder once an Exchange box is compromised.
Do this: Apply the Microsoft hotfix on your Exchange Server build and follow Microsoft's guidance to reset the shared hybrid service principal keyCredentials so a compromised on-prem server cannot reuse them against Exchange Online.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-21. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-53786
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Updated August 7, 2026. Data refreshed on every build from MSRC, CISA KEV, and FIRST EPSS.
Full tracking and change history for CVE-2025-53786
Published and last-revised dates are authoritative, from Microsoft MSRC (or the CISA KEV date-added). Senserva additionally records day-to-day changes from 2026-07-07, refreshed several times a day; the change count reflects that forward-only tracking.
Exploitation and severity
Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 7.4%. CVSS 8.0 (High).
This CVE is among the lower half of tracked Microsoft CVEs by EPSS exploit probability.
Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-53786
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing updates KB5047155, KB5050672, KB5050673, KB5050674 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-2025-53786. 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.
Affected products
Authoritative references
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