CVE-2025-24990
Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 6.37 % · percentile 94 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- microsoft
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Microsoft is aware of vulnerabilities in the third party Agere Modem driver that ships natively with supported Windows operating systems. This is an announcement of the upcoming removal of ltmdm64.sys driver. The driver has been removed in the October cumulative update. Fax modem hardware dependent on this specific driver will no longer work on Windows. Microsoft recommends removing any existing dependencies on this hardware.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-822 — Untrusted Pointer Dereference
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24990
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24990
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24990-detection-script-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability-in-agere-modem-driver-affecting-windows
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24990-mitigation-script-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability-in-agere-modem-driver-affecting-windows
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C | microsoft |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-34257
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-24990
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0879 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Microsoft Windows · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.10240.21161cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.14393.8519cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.17763.7919cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.19044.6456cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.19045.6456cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.22621.6060cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*≤ 10.0.22631.6060cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_24h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.26100.6899cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_11_25h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*< 10.0.26200.6899cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:x64:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≤ 10.0.14393.8519cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 10.0.17763.7919cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 10.0.20348.4294cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2022_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 10.0.25398.1913cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2025:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≤ 10.0.26100.6899
Affected products
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities | CC0 1.0 |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |