
Tasting the Exploit: HackerHood tests Microsoft WSUS CVE-2025-59287 Exploit
The cybersecurity landscape was recently rocked by the discovery of a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) . Identified as CVE-2025-59287 and with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) , this flaw poses a high and immediate risk to organizations using WSUS for centralized update management. The vulnerability is particularly dangerous because it allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges on the affected WSUS servers. After Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch on October 23, 2025, which was necessary because the initial October patch had not fully addressed the issue,


