CVE-2025-55338
Published: 14 October 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-55338 is a medium-severity Missing Ability to Patch ROM Code (CWE-1310) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 42.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-34419
Vulnerability details
Missing Ability to Patch ROM Code in Windows BitLocker allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature with a physical attack.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Authorizing remote access reduces the ability to bypass authentication via unauthorized alternate remote channels.
Users can identify logons via alternate paths or channels by reviewing the previous logon time.
Adaptive requirements can apply across access paths, reducing the ability to bypass authentication via alternate channels or paths.
Centralized IdPs close alternate authentication paths that enable bypass.
Enforces authentication for non-organizational users, making it harder to bypass via alternate paths or channels.
Requires authentication to occur exclusively over the isolated trusted path, directly preventing bypass via alternate or untrusted channels.