Microsoft is addressing 121 vulnerabilities this April 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is more than twice as many as last month. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, which is already reflected in CISA KEV.
Once again, Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of publication, so that’s now a seven month unbroken streak. Today also sees the publication of 11 critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. 13 browser vulnerabilities have already been published separately this month, and are not included in the total.
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Source: Rapid7
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