Seriously? *Another* Exchange Vulnerability?!

Right, listen up. Because apparently some people need it spelled out in crayon. CISA – those clowns over at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – have issued an emergency directive. Why? Because Microsoft’s Exchange servers are, shocker, riddled with yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-53786). It’s a remote code execution thing, meaning some script kiddie could probably waltz right in and own your mail server if you don’t get off your arse and patch it.

It affects Exchange 2016 and 2019, specifically the Cumulative Updates released in January. So yeah, even if you *thought* you were up to date, you probably aren’t. They’re giving federal agencies a pathetic 72 hours to apply the fix. Seventy-two hours! Like that’s enough time for some of these organizations to find someone who knows what an Exchange server *is*, let alone how to patch it.

The worst part? It’s exploitable without authentication, meaning no login needed. Fantastic. Just… fantastic. If you run Exchange, and haven’t already, PATCH IT NOW. Don’t be a moron. I swear, dealing with this garbage is why I drink.

Source: BleepingComputer

Speaking of Exchange… I once had to spend three days cleaning up a mess caused by an admin who thought “reinstalling Windows” was a valid troubleshooting step for a mail flow issue. Three. Days. I’m still seeing the error messages in my nightmares. Don’t be that admin.

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