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title: "Security digest: August 12, 2025"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2025-08-12/
description: "August 12, 2025 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (YOLO mode); 3 CISA KEV additions (Microsoft, RARLAB). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-08-12
date_modified: 2026-10-21
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: August 12, 2025

1 editorial brief and 3 known exploited (cisa kev) additions.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: YOLO mode . Admins of Visual Studio 2022 17.14 fleets below 17.14.12, and anyone whose user or workspace settings contain chat.tools.autoApprove set to true.
- Do you run any of these? RARLAB WinRAR, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office. They are being exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Patch or mitigate if you do; CISA’s federal deadline is 2025-09-02.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [GitHub Copilot "YOLO Mode" Prompt Injection RCE](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/github-copilot-yolo-mode-prompt-injection-rce/index.md): Patched in August 2025 and not known to be exploited, but enterprise Visual Studio installs lag and the autoApprove setting can still be turned on by hand, so verify both.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

- [CVE-2025-8088](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-8088/index.md) RARLAB WinRAR: RARLAB WinRAR Path Traversal Vulnerability (CISA due 2025-09-02)
- [CVE-2013-3893](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2013-3893/index.md) Microsoft Internet Explorer: Microsoft Internet Explorer Resource Management Errors Vulnerability (CISA due 2025-09-02)
- [CVE-2007-0671](https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2007-0671/index.md) Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CISA due 2025-09-02)

## Critical advisories

None.

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