Patch Tuesday – January 2025


Microsoft is addressing 161 vulnerabilities this January 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for eight of the vulnerabilities published today, with three listed on CISA KEV.

This is now the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of publication. Today also sees the publication of nine critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Unusually, Microsoft has not yet published any browser vulnerabilities this month.

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Source: Rapid7


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