May 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Panic, change, and hope

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 …