{"id":6070,"date":"2025-02-20T06:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/microsoft-patches-exploited-power-pages-flaw\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T06:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:49:52","slug":"microsoft-patches-exploited-power-pages-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/microsoft-patches-exploited-power-pages-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patches Exploited Power Pages Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\"><i class=\"icon-font icon-calendar\">\ue802<\/i><span class=\"author\">February 20, 2025<\/span><i class=\"icon-font icon-user\">\ue804<\/i><span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Software Security \/ Vulnerability<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articlebody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjyoLpL68O0FUlFl5qzA3Vt9PQAjeUG7wo-6R9ZmUxe3afJiwunY0cDlEwDSnfDyJ_1wpYsC7jCbzk6inYQJ2B0Km0SGCshtJShDrzdlo5pnOJ83BozIoyR43KERQZWJ12zGshdGBYttBXk_C3GKu1kc02jF6ziwBRbO87zx3637r-jsUoINmnYREAKdcM1\/s728-rw-e365\/ms.png\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft has issued security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities affecting Bing and Power Pages, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerabilities in question are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2025-21355\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2025-21355<\/a><\/strong> (CVSS score: 8.6) &#8211; Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Microsoft Bing<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2025-24989\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2025-24989<\/a><\/strong> (CVSS score: 8.2) &#8211; Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Microsoft Power Pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Microsoft, the CVE-2025-21355 vulnerability allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network due to missing authentication for a critical function in Microsoft Bing. No action is required from customers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dog_two clear\">\n<center class=\"cf\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.uk\/saas-security-v2-d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cybersecurity\"><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhT2OnXk97z-adL5WBKzz6wsA7vAhygg3Px0VPmqpH5hH4AErnYajTCpDN7SLy43ejD_T4Skv8OMOdG9qpzMfihrj8o7qSznLKA8zg7jW8L4hY8-umwTNZSpAj0JvtG3VGMFGw9n7hMyea1NpVSXp6yTaClLUQ3GujxwlEuLmQFSsVH28WQy6vp-cOGG0p_\/s728-rw-e100\/saas-security-v2-d.png\" width=\"727\" height=\"90\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, CVE-2025-24989 is an improper access control vulnerability in Power Pages, a low-code platform for creating and managing secure business websites. This vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network and bypass user registration control.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, which credited its employee Raj Kumar for discovering the vulnerability, has marked it as &#8220;Exploitation Detected&#8221;, indicating that it is aware of at least one instance of the bug being exploited in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>However, the advisory does not provide details on the nature or scale of the attacks, the identity of the threat actors, or the potential targets.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, &#8220;This vulnerability has already been mitigated in the service and all affected customers have been notified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This update addressed the registration control bypass. Affected customers have been given instructions on reviewing their sites for potential exploitation and cleanup methods. If you haven&#8217;t been notified, this vulnerability does not affect you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hacker News has reached out to Microsoft for further comment and will update the story if a response is received.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"cf note-b\">If you found this article interesting, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehackersnews\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter <i class=\"icon-font icon-twitter\">\uf099<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/thehackernews\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> to read more exclusive content.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/microsoft-patches-actively-exploited.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ue802February 20, 2025\ue804Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security \/ Vulnerability Microsoft has issued security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities affecting Bing and Power Pages, one of which is being actively exploited in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[46,39,32,31,33,34,35,40,36,37,42,44,43,41,38,45],"class_list":["post-6070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cybersecurity","tag-computer-security","tag-cyber-attacks","tag-cyber-news","tag-cyber-security-news","tag-cyber-security-news-today","tag-cyber-security-updates","tag-cyber-updates","tag-data-breach","tag-hacker-news","tag-hacking-news","tag-how-to-hack","tag-information-security","tag-network-security","tag-ransomware-malware","tag-software-vulnerability","tag-the-hacker-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/1740034192_ms.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}