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High 1 exploited CVE MSRC-CVE-2025-24990 1 CVE

Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2025

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Exploited according to Microsoft — Exploitation Detected. Customer action: Required.

Details

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

Is the vulnerability only exploitable if the Agere Modem is actively being used?
No. All supported versions of Windows can be affected by a successful exploitation of this vulnerability, even if the modem is not actively being used.

Security updates
10.0.26200.6899 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066835
10.0.17763.7919 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066586
10.0.20348.4294 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066782
10.0.19044.6456 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066791
10.0.22621.6060 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066793
10.0.25398.1913 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066780
10.0.10240.21161 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066837
10.0.14393.8519 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066836
6.0.6003.23571 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066874
6.0.6003.23571 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066877
6.1.7601.27974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066872
6.1.7601.27974 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066876
6.2.9200.25722 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066875
6.3.9600.22824 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5066873

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