What’s New Wednesday: Patch Tuesday July 2025 July 9, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays – Tags: Cyber Security, it support, Patch Tuesday, patching, SmallBusiness, WhatsNewWednesday

Welcome to Patch Tuesday July 2025. 137 flaws were patched including one zero-day vulnerability. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it.

NEW THIS WEDNESDAY

Overall Microsoft patched:

• 53 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
• 8 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities
• 41 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
• 18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
• 6 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• 4 Spoofing Vulnerability

There was one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities patched:
CVE-2025-49719 – Microsoft SQL Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability
A flaw in Microsoft SQL Server that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access data from uninitialized memory.

Releases from other software providers include:

• AMD – disclosed new Transient Scheduler Attacks.
• Cisco – numerous patches this month, including one for hardcoded root SSH credentials in Unified CM.
• Fortinet – security updates for multiple products, including FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiSandbox, FortiIsolator, and FortiProxy.
• Google – security updates for Google Chrome to fix an actively exploited zero-day tracked as CVE-2025-6554.
• Grafana – security fixes for 4 Chromium vulnerabilities in Grafana Image Renderer plugin and Synthetic Monitoring Agent.
• Ivanti – security updates for flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure, Ivanti EPMM, and Ivanti EPM. None of these vulnerabilities has been reported as actively exploited.
• SAP – security updates for multiple products, including upgrading a previous flaw (CVE-2025-30012) in SAP Supplier Relationship Management to a rating of 10/10.

FULL LIST OF MICROSOFT PATCHES

GLOSSARY

• Authentication – proving who you are so you can be given access to what you need/have rights to.
• MFA – multi-factor authentication, proving who you are in multiple ways, something you know (like a password or pin), something you are (a fingerprint or retina scan), something you have (like your phone – proved with a code).
• Vulnerability – a defect in software that could allow an attacker to gain control of a system or service.
• Patch – a change to a piece of software, released after sale, to fix a problem or add a feature.
• Zero Day – Microsoft classifies a vulnerability as a zero-day if it is publicly disclosed or actively exploited with no official fix available.
• Actively Exploited – an actively exploited vulnerability is one that is being used by malicious actors.
• DDOS / DOS – (Distributed) Denial of Service attack, a method of swamping a service or server with so many false queries at once that it is forced offline.
• Disclosed – a disclosed vulnerability is one that the software creators have published, meaning that it can be easily found out about by anyone who knows where to look.
• CVE ID – CVE, short for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, is a list of publicly disclosed computer security flaws, the ID is the number assigned to that vulnerability.
• Severity – a disclosed vulnerability is one that the software creators have published, meaning that it can be easily found out about by anyone who knows where to look.
• Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities – allow for intruders to bypass security features such as password protection or MFA.
• Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities – allow people to remotely trigger potentially malicious code on your device.
• Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities – allow the wrong people access to your data.
• Denial of Service Vulnerabilities – allow a DOS/DDOS attack to succeed.
• Spoofing Vulnerabilities – allow someone to pretend to be you/your systems.

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