Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities – one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity – according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them.
The four vulnerabilities added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Monday are: CVE-2025-60710, a link-following vulnerability in Windows that allows privilege escalation. After initially disclosing this bug in November 2025, Redmond fully fixed it a month later. CVE-2023-36424, a Windows Common Log File System Driver flaw that allows privilege escalation. Microsoft patched this one in November 2023.
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