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CVE-2025-55676

CVE-2025-55676 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

6.0%

EPSS, 30 days

Medium

Severity

Not in the CISA KEV catalog. EPSS exploit probability 6.0%. CVSS 5.5 (Medium).

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

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-55676

This one lives in the USB Video Class driver, meaning exposure depends on whether a machine has a USB webcam or capture device attached, on Windows 11 Version 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 Server Core, rated Critical 9.9. Server Core builds rarely have USB video hardware in practice, so the real-world footprint is likely smaller than the CVSS score alone implies. EPSS is 6 percent, consistent with the rest of this cycle's driver-level disclosures.

Do this: Focus remediation on Windows 11 25H2 desktops and laptops with webcams; Server 2025 Core hosts without video hardware are lower priority.

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

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-55676

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-2025-55676 (source: https://senserva.com/cve/CVE-2025-55676.html, data from MSRC, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS, NVD, refreshed twice a day (5 AM and 3 PM US Central)):
- CVE-2025-55676: Medium severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 5.5
- EPSS 30-day exploitation probability: 6.0%
- Actively exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed by: KB5066835
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 6%.

Fixed by KB5066835. 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-2025-55676

Lower priority: patch in your normal cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing update KB5066835 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-2025-55676. 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.

KB5066835

Scope and sources

Affected products

Fixed by the same update

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Authoritative references

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

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