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Microsoft Releases Guidance on High-Severity Vulnerability (CVE-2025-53786) in Hybrid Exchange Deployments ↗ source

August 6, 2025 CISA Alert

Summary

This vulnerability, if not addressed, could impact the identity integrity of an organization’s Exchange Online service. While Microsoft has stated there is no observed exploitation as of the time of this alert’s publication, CISA strongly urges organizations to implement Microsoft’s Exchange Server Hybrid Deployment Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability guidance outlined below, or risk leaving the organization vulnerable to a hybrid cloud and on-premises total domain compromise. Organizations should first inventory all Exchange Servers on their networks (organizations should leverage existing visibility tools or publicly available tools, such as NMAP or PowerShell scripts, to accomplish this task). If using Exchange hybrid, review Microsoft’s guidance Exchange Server Security Changes for Hybrid Deployments to determine if your Microsoft hybrid deployments are potentially affected and available for a Cumulative Update (CU). Install Microsoft’s April 2025 Exchange Server Hotfix Updates on the on-premise Exchange server and follow Microsoft’s configuration instructions Deploy dedicated Exchange hybrid app .

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CVEs Referenced in This Publication

CVECVSSAffected
CVE-2025-53786 8.0 High Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 23 On April 18th 2025, Microsoft announced Exchange Server Security Changes for Hybrid Deployments and accompanying non-security Hot Fix. Microsoft made…

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