patch tuesday 2025

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    Windows 11 KB5065426: SMB Sharing Failures, Workarounds, and Guidance

    Windows 11’s September Patch Tuesday cumulative, KB5065426 (OS Build 26100.6584), has been linked to widespread file- and print-sharing failures on some machines, with multiple community threads and Microsoft Q&A posts reporting disabled sharing settings, networks switching from Private to...
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    September 2025 Patch Tuesday: ~80 CVEs, SMB hardening, Windows 10 EoS, MFA enforcement

    Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally important security payload: this cycle addresses roughly 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Azure, Hyper‑V and related components, including several critical remote‑code‑execution (RCE) and elevation‑of‑privilege (EoP) flaws...
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    September Patch Tuesday Fixes UAC/MSI and NDI Regressions in Windows

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday has quietly closed two disruptive Windows regressions introduced in August — one that interfered with MSI-based app installs by unexpectedly surfacing User Account Control (UAC) prompts for standard users, and another that crippled NDI-based streaming...
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    September Patch Tuesday 2025: Talos Snort Rules and the SOC Playbook

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with a broad set of fixes and a matching set of detection updates from Cisco Talos — including a new Snort ruleset — aimed at the most likely-to-be-exploited flaws this month. The update package contains dozens of CVEs spanning Windows core components...
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    CVE-2025-21207 Cdpsvc DoS: What Admins Must Do Now

    CVE-2025-54114 (Cdpsvc) — What you need to know now Author: Senior Security Writer, WindowsForum.com Date: September 9, 2025 TL;DR — There’s confusion about the CVE number you provided. Microsoft’s Security Update Guide entry for the Connected Devices Platform Service (Cdpsvc) DoS is widely...
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    CVE-2025-54092: Windows Hyper-V race condition and local privilege escalation

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-54092 as a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V: the issue is described as a concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (a race condition) that an authorized local attacker could leverage to elevate...
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    CERT-In Urges Immediate Patch for Edge, Windows Storage, Certificates, Databricks

    The Indian government’s cybersecurity arm has issued a high-severity alert advising organisations and individuals to urgently address a batch of patched—but still dangerous—vulnerabilities across multiple Microsoft products, including Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Server storage...
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    NDI Stuttering After August 2025 Windows Update: Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft has formally acknowledged that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update is responsible for severe stuttering, lag and choppy audio/video in NDI-based workflows on affected Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds, and vendors and community engineers have published an immediate—but...
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    Windows August 2025: OOB Fixes Restore Recovery, SSD Anomalies

    Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a serious disruption in core Windows recovery flows and pushed emergency, out‑of‑band (OOB) updates after the August 2025 Patch Tuesday rollups left some systems unable to complete “Reset this PC,” cloud re‑image operations, and certain remote wipe jobs — and...
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    August Patchday 2025: dMSA Kerberos Flaw Could Unlock Domain Admin — Patch Now

    Microsoft’s August Patchday reads like a wake‑up call: a newly disclosed Kerberos-related weakness tied to the delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature in Windows Server 2025 can — under the right conditions — let an attacker escalate to domain‑admin control, and a clutch of additional...
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    Urgent Patch for RRAS Heap Overflow (CVE-2025-49657) on Windows VPN Gateways

    Microsoft has released security updates addressing a dangerous heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) that can allow remote code execution against RRAS-enabled servers; administrators should treat this as a high-priority patching event, verify the...
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    CVE-2025-53148: RRAS Uninitialized Resource Information Disclosure - Detection, Patch & Mitigation

    Title: CVE‑2025‑53148 — What Windows admins need to know about the RRAS “uninitialized resource” information‑disclosure issue (analysis, risk, detection and remediation) Short summary for busy admins You sent the MSRC link for CVE‑2025‑53148 (Routing and Remote Access Service / RRAS). I could...
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    CVE-2025-50167: Hyper-V Race Condition Elevates Privilege (Patch Now)

    Microsoft’s advisory for CVE‑2025‑50167 warns that a race condition in Windows Hyper‑V can be abused by an authorized local attacker to elevate privileges on affected hosts — a kernel‑level flaw that demands immediate attention from administrators, cloud operators, and anyone running Hyper‑V...
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    CVE-2025-50168: Windows Win32K ICOMP Type-Confusion Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft has assigned CVE-2025-50168 to a Windows kernel vulnerability in the Win32K ICOMP component described as "Access of resource using incompatible type ('type confusion')" that can allow an authorized local user to elevate privileges; Microsoft’s advisory is published in the Security...
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    CVE-2025-49657: Mitigating Windows RRAS Heap Overflow and RCE risk

    A critical heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) has been disclosed that can allow remote code execution over a network—an unauthenticated attacker can potentially execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems that have RRAS enabled, making prompt...
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    Windows 11 June 2025 Update: Extended Restore Points, Security Fixes & CJK Font Clarity

    Microsoft's June 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 introduces several noteworthy changes, including an extension of system restore point retention, critical security fixes, and a resolution for a font rendering issue affecting East Asian languages. Extended System Restore Point Retention...
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    April 2025 Windows Update: Why is the Empty 'inetpub' Folder on My C: Drive?

    Windows updates continue to keep IT professionals and enthusiasts on their toes. The latest April 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5055523) and Windows 10 (KB5055518) has introduced a curious new quirk: an empty “inetpub” folder appearing in the root of the C: drive, even on systems...
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