CVE-2025-24989
An improper access control vulnerability in Power Pages allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network potentially bypassing the user registration control. This vulnerability has already been mitigated in the service and all affected customers have been notified. This update addressed the registration control bypass. Affected customers have been given instructions on reviewing their sites for potential exploitation and clean up methods. If you've not been notified this vulnerability does not affect you.
do firstApply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Can a WAF block it? Partly. The bug can be reached over the network, so generic WAF rules may stop some attacks. Its weakness type is unknown, so we cannot be more precise.
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Based on the weakness type only; no CVE-specific evidence yet. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2025-24989 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2025-24989 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2025-24989?
CVE-2025-24989 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.2. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-24989?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-24989. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-24989 affect?
CVE-2025-24989 affects microsoft:power_pages. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- no
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 21 Feb 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 19 Feb 2025Published
- 21 Feb 2025Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 1 day later
- 21 Feb 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 1 day later
- 14 Mar 2025CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 20 days later
- 13 Feb 2026CVE record last updated · 337 days (about 11 months) later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 262 days (about 9 months) later
- Patchmsrc.microsoft.com /update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24989
- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24989
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.