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CVE-2025-24990: Microsoft Windows Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

criticalknown exploitedCVE-2025-24990
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Microsoft Windows Agere Modem Driver contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: Microsoftproduct: WindowsPrivilege escalation
What
Microsoft Windows Agere Modem Driver contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.
Who is affected
Users of Microsoft Windows with the Agere Modem Driver.
Urgency
Immediate remediation is necessary as the vulnerability is actively exploited and critical.
Action
Update to the latest version of the Windows Agere Modem Driver.

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Details

Source
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (US · database · site)
Severity
critical
Published
2025-10-14
Exploitation
Observed in the wild (CISA KEV)

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24990

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2025-24990coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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