Welcome back to another glorious Patch Tuesday recap where we highlight Windows lowlights. With the Severance season 2 finale come and gone, I started wondering how many of us would actually sever ourselves just to avoid Patch Tuesday. While you ponder that thought, let’s dig into the Patch Tuesday details.
Total exploits patched: 122
Critical patches: 11
Already known or exploited: 1
Some highlights (or lowlights)
CVE-2025-27740: One of several 8.8 rated CVEs this month, CVE-2025-27740 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability that anyone running Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) should be concerned with. If exploited, this vulnerability would allow a low-level authenticated user to acquire a certificate from ADCS that could enable System access.
CVE-2025-25000: Not to be outdone, CVE-2025-25000 is another 8.8-rated vulnerability targeting Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. This is a ‘type confusion’ exploit that targets vulnerable systems that visit a malicious website, leading to remote code execution. Type confusion exploits are a common attack surface for systems that use dynamic typing, which allows variable types to be determined and updated at runtime. This type of attack is often combined with a phishing attempt to bring users to the malicious site.
CVE-2025-26670: A couple more LDAP vulnerabilities have returned this month. If my memory serves, I don’t remember seeing any LDAP CVEs last month, but I had a feeling they’d be back. These attacks are dangerous because they have a network attack vector and don’t require privileges or user interaction — just a specially crafted LDAP message. They can be tricky to execute, though, because bad actors have to win a race condition — but that doesn't help me sleep at night.
Wrapping up
Now that you’ve had some time to reflect on it, would you sever yourself to avoid Patch Tuesday? My main concern is that my innie would just go full-contact IT and push out all the updates to production without testing anything as a form of revolt, leaving me one heck of a mess to clean up if stuff hit the proverbial fan.
Thankfully, with PDQ Connect, you don’t have to sever yourself to avoid Patch Tuesday. Connect makes it easy to automate your Windows and third-party patch deployments, turning Patch Tuesday into just another terrific Taco Tuesday.
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