Patch tracker / CVE reference / CVE-2025-59227
CVE-2025-59227
CVE-2025-59227 is a high severity Microsoft vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. 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
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.
Both Office 2016 editions and Office 2019 fall under this Office remote code execution flaw, High Severity at CVSS 7.8. The practical concern is fleets still standardized on perpetual-license Office, where update discipline is often weaker than on click-to-run channels. EPSS sees only a 1 percent exploitation probability and no attacks are known.
Do this: Sweep for Office 2016 and 2019 installs missing recent updates and bring them current in one pass.
AI-generated from public data, 2026-07-07. Verify against the vendor advisory before acting.
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Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-59227
Moderate priority: schedule it in your normal patch cycle. In Intune or Defender, confirm whether the fixing update KB5002792 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-2025-59227. 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 update
- Authoritative references
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