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CISA Adds Exploited XWiki, VMware Flaws to KEV Catalog

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Authoritative record:CVE-2025-41244· High 7.8

Exploited in the wild · KEV due 20 Nov 2025 : apply the vendor's fix or mitigations to affected systems now.

Data as of 3 Nov 2025, 14:31 UTC

CVSS base score
7.8High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
KEV deadline
 US federal agencies must patch by this date; a sensible deadline for everyone else.

Exploitation evidence

t = 0 is the CVE’s publication on cve.org

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 29 Sep 2025

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponised: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: evidence found.

    Listed in CISA KEV 31 days after disclosure

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

Timeline

  1. CVE ID reserved

    by vmware

    , 166 days before disclosure

  2. CVE published

    on cve.org

    , t = 0

  3. In Threat Radar

    record ingested

    , 9 minutes after disclosure

  4. , 31 days after disclosure

  5. KEV remediation due

    US federal deadline

    , 52 days after disclosure

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), CISA KEV (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

What to do

AI-suggested

European organizations should immediately verify if their XWiki and VMware deployments are affected by the vulnerabilities listed in the KEV catalog and Broadcom advisories. Applying vendor-provided patches or updates is the highest priority. Where patches are not yet available, implement compensating controls such as network segmentation, strict access controls, and enhanced monitoring for unusual activity related to these products. Employ intrusion detection and prevention systems tuned to detect exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2025-41244 and related flaws. Conduct thorough asset inventories to identify all instances of XWiki and VMware products. Educate IT and security teams about the indicators of compromise and ensure incident response plans include scenarios involving these vulnerabilities. Regularly review and update firewall and endpoint protection rules to block known exploit payloads. Engage with vendors for timely updates and threat intelligence sharing. Finally, consider restricting administrative access to these platforms to trusted personnel and enforcing multi-factor authentication to reduce exploitation risk.

Description

Broadcom has updated its advisory on CVE-2025-41244 to mention the vulnerability’s in-the-wild exploitation. The post CISA Adds Exploited XWiki, VMware Flaws to KEV Catalog appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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