Microsoft’s WSUS Woes: Patch Now or Risk a Hacker’s Delight!
Microsoft released an urgent update to patch a critical WSUS vulnerability, CVE-2025-59287, only to have hackers exploit it hours later. This flaw lets unauthenticated attackers run code with System privileges. Disabling WSUS temporarily is advised until the patch is applied. The Dutch government is also on high alert.
Hot Take:
Oh dear, Microsoft’s WSUS seems to have caught the cybersecurity equivalent of a seasonal cold: it’s sneezing out a critical vulnerability, and hackers are reaching for the tissues—err, I mean, the exploit code. If ever there was a time to update, it’s now. IT admins, stop what you’re doing and get patching before your servers start coughing up sensitive data!
Key Points:
- Microsoft released an urgent update to patch a critical vulnerability in WSUS on Windows Server.
- The vulnerability, CVE-2025-59287, allows remote code execution through unsafe object deserialization.
- Hackers jumped on the opportunity to exploit this flaw within hours of the patch release.
- A PoC exploit was made public by HawkTrace, showing how the flaw can be leveraged.
- Roughly 2,500 WSUS instances globally remain vulnerable.
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