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Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped (thehackernews.com)
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..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...

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[–] 36 points 1 year ago*

The exploits are addressed in the patch released yesterday, on the final day of support.

Generally such exploits aren't released to the public until they have been patched, to prevent wider abuse of the exploits in the meantime.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2025-24990

As you can see here near the bottom of the page it lists security updates for this epxloit having been released on October 14rh, 2025, the final day of Win10 support. These updates will still be available to Windows 10 systems even after October 14th, they will just be unable to get new patches after that date.

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