Microsoft Windows Agere Modem Driver contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
Product
Windows
Added to KEV
14 Oct 2025
Federal remediation due
4 Nov 2025
Known ransomware use
Not reported
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CVE-2025-24990
Listed in CISA KEV · added 14 Oct 2025 · Microsoft · Windows
Microsoft Windows Agere Modem Driver contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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.
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