• It’s the final patch Tuesday of 2025, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. • Put aside your holiday planning for just a moment as we review the latest security offering from Adobe and Microsoft. • If you’d rather watch the full video recap covering the entire release, you can check it out here: Adobe Patches for December 2025 For December, Adobe released five bulletins addressing 139 unique CVEs in Adobe Reader, ColdFusion, Experience Manager, Creative Cloud Desktop, and the Adobe DNG Software Development Kit (SDK). • Don’t panic at that large of a CVE count. • Most of those are simple cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs in Adobe Experience Manager. • There are a few Critical-rated DOM-based XSS bugs in the mix, so don’t ignore this patch by any means - just don’t panic at the large number of CVEs.

Article Summaries:

  • The December 2025 Security Update Review

Adobe’s final Patch Tuesday of 2025 addressed 139 CVEs across Reader, ColdFusion, Experience Manager, Creative Cloud Desktop, and the DNG SDK. Most fixes are cross‑site scripting bugs, with a handful of critical DOM‑based XSS and several arbitrary‑execution flaws in ColdFusion (deployment priority 1). Only two of four Reader CVEs involved code execution, and the DNG SDK fixed four CVEs, one of which allowed execution. Microsoft released 56 new CVEs (70 including Chromium updates), bringing its 2025 total to 1,139 patched issues-second‑largest year after 2020. The only active‑attack CVE was CVE‑2025‑62221, an elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in Windows Cloud Files.

  • Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles one zero-day bug that is already being exploited, as well as two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Despite releasing a lower-than-normal number of security updates these past few months, Microsoft patched a whopping 1,129 vulnerabilities in 2025, an 11.9% increase from 2024. According to Satnam Narang at Tenable, this year marks the second consecutive year that Microsoft patched over one thousand vulnerabilities, and the third time
  • Microsoft released its final Patch Tuesday for 2025, addressing 56 security flaws-including a zero‑day (CVE‑2025‑62221) that exploits the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver used by cloud storage apps. The update also fixes two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. In total, Microsoft patched 1,129 vulnerabilities in 2025, an 11.9 % rise from 2024 and the second consecutive year exceeding 1,000 fixes. Three critical bugs involve Microsoft Office and Outlook preview panes, while several privilege‑escalation flaws (e.g., CVE‑2025‑62458, CVE‑2025‑62470) are deemed most likely to be exploited. A remote code‑execution flaw in the GitHub Copilot plugin (CVE‑2025‑64671) highlights growing risks in AI‑powered IDEs.

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