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CVE-2025-59234

CVE-2025-59234 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.

High

High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 7.8. Fixed by 1 Microsoft security update.

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Risk summary

CVSS base

7.8

EPSS exploit probability

<1%

Severity

High

Senserva AI Opinion for CVE-2025-59234

Office 2016 in both editions and Office 2019 32-bit are affected by this Office remote code execution flaw, making it primarily a legacy-suite problem. Rated High Severity at CVSS 7.8 with a 1 percent EPSS score and no observed exploitation, the risk is unremarkable but real for organizations keeping decade-old Office builds alive on user desktops.

Do this: Patch surviving Office 2016 installs and flag them for upgrade; they accumulate risk with every new file-format flaw.

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

Senserva AI Opinion and rich prompt for CVE-2025-59234

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-2025-59234 (source: https://senserva.com/cve/CVE-2025-59234.html, data from MSRC, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS, NVD, refreshed twice a day (5 AM and 3 PM US Central)):
- CVE-2025-59234: High severity Microsoft vulnerability, CVSS 7.8
- EPSS 30-day exploitation probability: <1%
- Actively exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed by: KB5002792
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.
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Schedule normally

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

Fixed by KB5002792. 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.

Updated August 7, 2026. Data refreshed on every build from MSRC, CISA KEV, and FIRST EPSS.

Full tracking and change history for CVE-2025-59234

Published

2025-10-14

Last revised

2025-10-14

Changes tracked

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 <1%. CVSS 7.8 (High).

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

Official patch(es) for CVE-2025-59234

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-2025-59234. 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.

KB5002792

Affected products

Fixed by the same update

If you are patching CVE-2025-59234, the same update also fixes these:

CVE-2025-59227

Authoritative references

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

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