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CVE-2025-54901

CVE-2025-54901 is a medium severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. Microsoft has shipped the fix: deploy the update below from the Microsoft Update Catalog, and see where this CVE sits against the rest on the patch tracker.

Risk summary

Medium

5.5

CVSS v3

<1%

EPSS, 30 days

Medium

Severity

Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability <1%. CVSS 5.5 (Medium).

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

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-54901

This Excel bug is only Medium severity at 5.5 and 1 percent EPSS, the lowest risk profile in this batch so far, affecting Office 2019 and Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise on 32-bit systems. Client document bugs at this severity level typically require significant user interaction and yield limited information exposure, which is reflected in both scores here. This can safely sit at the back of the queue behind the Critical Windows fixes above.

Do this: Deploy through the normal Office update channel; no urgency beyond the standard patch schedule.

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

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-54901

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-2025-54901 (source: https://senserva.com/cve/CVE-2025-54901.html, data from MSRC, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS, NVD, refreshed twice a day (5 AM and 3 PM US Central)):
- CVE-2025-54901: Medium severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 5.5
- EPSS 30-day exploitation probability: <1%
- Actively exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed by: KB5002762
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 KB5002762. 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-2025-54901

Lower priority: patch in your normal cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing update KB5002762 are installed across the affected products. Senserva does this automatically across your tenant and flags every missing patch.

Apply the Microsoft security update below to fix CVE-2025-54901. 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.

KB5002762

Scope and sources

Affected products

Authoritative references

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

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