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Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft Exchange Server

IdentifiersCVE-2025-64666CWE-20· Improper Input Validation

CVE-2025-64666 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server caused by improper input validation. According to the provided content, exploitation allows an authenticated low-privilege user to elevate privileges to administrator rights over the network. The issue affects Microsoft Exchange Server and was reported by the NSA. The available information does not identify the specific vulnerable function or code path.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows an authenticated attacker with low privileges to obtain administrator-level rights on the affected Exchange Server over the network. This can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including administrative control of the Exchange environment and the ability to perform privileged actions within the server context.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by restricting network access to Exchange administrative and service interfaces, enforcing least privilege for Exchange accounts, limiting authenticated access paths, and closely monitoring for anomalous privilege changes or suspicious activity involving low-privilege accounts. For unsupported Exchange 2016/2019 deployments, enrollment in ESU or migration to Exchange Server Subscription Edition is necessary for an official fix.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Apply Microsoft's security update for CVE-2025-64666. For Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, the provided content states that fixes are only available through the Extended Security Update (ESU) program because those versions are out of support. Organizations not covered by ESU should migrate to Exchange Server Subscription Edition to remain protected.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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VALID 0 / 0 TOTALView more in app

No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.

EXPOSURE SURFACE

Affected products & vendors

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VendorProductType
Microsoft CorporationExchange Serverapplication
Microsoft CorporationExchange Server 2016application
Microsoft CorporationExchange Server 2019application
Microsoft CorporationExchange Server Seapplication
Microsoft CorporationExchange Server Subscription Editionapplication

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