"I would like to inform you that we are currently experiencing a known issue with the May Month Patch KB5058379, titled "BitLocker Recovery Triggered on Windows 10 devices after installing KB5058379" on Windows 10 machines," an impacted user posted to Reddit. As first spotted by Windows Latest, since the release of this update, some Windows users and admins have been reporting that after installing the update and restarting the device, the computer would automatically boot into the WinRE BitLocker recovery screen. The Windows 10 KB5058379 cumulative update is triggering unexpected BitLocker recovery prompts on some devices afters it's installed and the computer restarted. On May 13, Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5058379 cumulative update as part of their May 2025 Patch Tuesday updates. "We have about a half dozen laptops that experienced various intermittent issues after receiving the same KB - some require bitlocker keys to start up, others refusing to start at all," a Windows admin posted to Reddit. "The latest KB5058379 released May 13 quality update failed in Windows 10 devices. While this is not impacting all Windows devices, there have been enough reports to indicate a problem with the update on some devices. Some users reported on Reddit that they could boot into Windows again by disabling Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) in the BIOS. Some devices it caused triggering bitlocker key window after restart," another person posted to the Microsoft forums. Soon after, numerous people responded to the posts stating that devices in their organizations were booting into WinRE and then shown the BitLocker recovery screen.
This Cyber News was published on www.bleepingcomputer.com. Publication date: Thu, 15 May 2025 21:39:55 +0000