CVE-2025-24990
Actively exploited. CVE-2025-24990 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-10-14) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching 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
- 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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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 92% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2025-24990: Microsoft Windows Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2025-10-14
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