Patch Tuesday: October 2025

Next Patch Tuesday: Tue 13 Oct 2026 (in 3 days)

October 2025 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixed 167 vulnerabilities, 7 of them Critical. 2 were already being exploited. Released Tue 14 Oct 2025.

• 167vulnerabilities fixed
• 7Critical
• 2exploited before the fix
• 1publicly disclosed
• 3now on CISA KEV

By type: 80 elevation of privilege, 29 remote code execution, 26 information disclosure, 11 denial of service, 10 security feature bypass, 10 spoofing, 1 tampering.

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Patch these first

Being exploited, already public, or on CISA’s list of vulnerabilities attackers are using. Whatever else waits for testing, these should not.

Critical (7)

Microsoft’s top rating: usually code execution with little or no user action.

Added to CISA KEV in October 2025 (31)

Every vendor, not only Microsoft. CISA adds a vulnerability when it has evidence attackers are using it. US federal agencies must fix it by the deadline shown; for everyone else, it is the best free “patch this now” list there is.

All 167 fixes

Published later in the month (13)

Microsoft Edge updates, out-of-band fixes and cloud services. “Fixed by Microsoft” means a cloud service Microsoft has already patched: there is nothing to install.

From Microsoft’s Security Update Guide and CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, checked 2 days ago. Only vulnerabilities Microsoft itself issued are counted; Chromium fixes that Edge inherits are left out. For known problems with the updates themselves, see Windows release health.