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CVE-2025-24989 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-06-22

Microsoft Power Pages vulnerability

Microsoft Power Pages contains an improper access control vulnerability allowing unauthorized privilege escalation and potential bypass of user registration controls.

Verdict

Today item — known-exploited.

An attacker can exploit improper access control in Power Pages to gain elevated privileges over a network and potentially circumvent registration restrictions, enabling unauthorized access to protected resources and functionality.

CISA KEV Yes · 2025-02-213EPSS 0.01659 (verify live)4
01

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score
Reported exploitation
6 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-21).
CISA KEV ↗Confirmed
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.01659 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Microsoft, Power Pages. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
NVD ↗Reported
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-284 Improper Access Control — weakness family: Authorization / access control.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
NVD ↗Reported
WeaknessCWE-284 · Improper Access ControlAuthorization / access control
02

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency
Attribution not established

No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

03

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board
1

Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1

Attacker
I identify that Power Pages enforces insufficient access control checks on privilege-escalation endpoints.
Business
Attackers bypass authentication and registration controls, gaining unauthorized administrative or elevated user access.
2

Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2

Attacker
I craft requests that exploit the access control weakness to escalate my privileges without proper authorization.
Business
Compromised user accounts or unauthenticated access enable lateral movement and data exfiltration within the Power Pages environment.
3

Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3

Attacker
I leverage elevated privileges to access sensitive data, modify configurations, or perform administrative actions.
Business
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Power Pages applications and hosted data are compromised, affecting business operations and customer trust.
04

What to do

— defensible action
  • Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
05

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

  • KEV listing (CISA)
  • EPSS probability (FIRST)
  • 6 reported-exploitation source(s)
  • CWE weakness mapping (NVD)
  • Catalogued by microsoft (CNA)
  • Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

  • No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.
  • EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.
  • Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.
  • No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.
  • Disclosure & credit2
    Catalogued by microsoftCNA
    Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.