Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2025 Security Update Review

**Microsoft & Adobe January 2025 Patch Summary:** This Patch Tuesday advisory details 159 patched vulnerabilities (10 critical) across Microsoft products and 14 critical Adobe issues, highlights eight zero-day flaws (three actively exploited), describes key CVEs and exploitation scenarios (including RCE, EoP, DoS, info disclosure, and security feature bypass), and provides mitigation/patch guidance plus Qualys detection and compliance queries to identify and remediate impacted hosts.