CISA warns high-severity Windows SMB flaw now exploited in attacks – update now


Microsoft has acknowledged older versions of Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server could be exploited due to a vulnerability related to SMB.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-33073 with a score of 8.8, was added to America’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list on October 20. Thankfully, Microsoft has already issued a fix for this, so anybody who applied June 2025’s Patch Tuesday update should be safe, but those who haven’t should act promptly.

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Source: TechRadar News


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