⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-14. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-11-04. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2025-24990

CWE-82212 documents10 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
3.9%
top 11.72%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-10-14
Due 2025-11-04
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 14
KEV addedOct 14
KEV dueNov 4
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages34 packages

NVDmicrosoft/windows< 10.0.17763.7919+4
NVDmicrosoft/windows_10_1507< 10.0.10240.21161
NVDmicrosoft/windows_10_1607< 10.0.14393.8519
NVDmicrosoft/windows_10_1809< 10.0.17763.7919
NVDmicrosoft/windows_10_21h2< 10.0.19044.6456

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability2025-10-14
GHSA
GHSA-9g9x-fc99-93r6: Microsoft is aware of vulnerabilities in the third party Agere Modem driver that ships natively with supported Windows operating systems2025-10-14
VulnCheck
Microsoft Windows Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerability2025

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Microsoft
Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability2025-10-14
CISA
Microsoft Windows Untrusted Pointer Dereference Vulnerability2025-10-14

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Krebs
Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition2025-10-14
Krebs
Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition2025-10-14
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