CVE-2025-24990

72

FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-24990 addresses vulnerabilities within the third-party Agere Modem driver (ltmdm64.sys) natively shipped with supported Windows operating systems. Microsoft has removed this driver in the October cumulative update, rendering hardware dependent on it non-functional. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) is exploitable locally with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Notably, this CVE is actively exploited in the wild, despite no public exploit code being available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 10.0.10240.21161CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1507:::::::x64:*
		< 10.0.14393.8519CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1607:::::::x64:*
		< 10.0.17763.7919CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_1809:::::::x64:*
		< 10.0.19044.6456CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_21h2:::::::x64:*
		< 10.0.19045.6456CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10_22h2:::::::x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

6.00%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

92.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

Added to KEV · Oct 14, 2025

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0600 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (27)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.3.9600.22824

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.26200.6899

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.17763.7919

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2019Fixed in: 10.0.17763.7919

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.17763.7919

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2022Fixed in: 10.0.20348.4294

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2022 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.20348.4294

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19044.6456

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22621.6060

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.19045.6456

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.26100.6899

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.26100.6899

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2025Fixed in: 10.0.26100.6899

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.22631.6060

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2022, 23H2 Edition (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.25398.1913

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.10240.21161

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based SystemsFixed in: 10.0.14393.8519

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2016Fixed in: 10.0.14393.8519

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 10.0.14393.8519

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2Fixed in: 6.0.6003.23571

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.0.6003.23571

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1Fixed in: 6.1.7601.27974

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.1.7601.27974

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012Fixed in: 6.2.9200.25722

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)Fixed in: 6.2.9200.25722

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc

Product: Windows Server 2012 R2Fixed in: 6.3.9600.22824

microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Oct/CVE-2025-24990Important

Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

US Government Resource

vicarius.io / vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24990-detection-script-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability-in-agere-modem-driver-affecting-windows

Third Party Advisory

vicarius.io / vsociety/posts/cve-2025-24990-mitigation-script-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability-in-agere-modem-driver-affecting-windows

MitigationThird Party Advisory

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24990

Vendor Advisory