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2025-05-09 06:10
April was an event-filled month for cybersecurity. Patch Tuesday came to us quickly on April 8 – the earliest first Tuesday possible in a given month. We again saw large numbers of CVEs addressed with 84 in Windows 11 and 87 in Windows 10 and all their related servers. There was only one known-exploited exploited vulnerability, CVE-2025-29824, which allowed elevation of privilege but it was present in all operating systems. Overall, a pretty typical monthly … More → The post May 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Panic, change, and hope appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-08 | CVE-2025-29824 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Use after free in Windows Common Log File System Driver allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. | 0.0 |