Patch Tuesday: October 2025 (Expel’s version)

This Patch Tuesday (Oct 14, 2025) briefing summarizes 175 new CVEs — eight critical and six zero-days — and calls out three high-priority Microsoft flaws (including a WSUS RCE with CVSS 9.8) and an actively exploited Cisco IOS SNMP zero-day (CVE-2025-20352) that can cause DoS or enable root code execution; organizations are advised to apply patches, restrict SNMP access, and monitor for suspicious activity.