January 22, 2025

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Oracle addresses 186 CVEs in its first quarterly update of 2025 with 318 patches, including 30 critical updates.

Background

On January 21, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2025, the first quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 186 CVEs in 318 security updates across 27 Oracle product families. Out of the 318 security updates published this quarter, 9.4% of patches were assigned a critical severity. Medium severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 56.6%, followed by high severity patches at 32.4%.

This quarter’s update includes 30 critical patches across 18 CVEs.

Analysis

This quarter, the Oracle REST Data Services product family contained the highest number of patches at 85, accounting for 26.7% of the total patches, followed by Oracle Health Sciences Applications at 39 patches, which accounted for 12.3% of the total patches.

A full breakdown of the patches for this quarter can be seen in the following table, which also includes a count of vulnerabilities that can be exploited over a network without authentication.

Solution

Customers are advised to apply all relevant patches in this quarter’s CPU. Please refer to the January 2025 advisory for full details.

Identifying affected systems

A list of Tenable plugins to identify these vulnerabilities will appear here as they’re released. This link uses a search filter to ensure that all matching plugin coverage will appear as it is released.

Get more information

• Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2025
• Oracle January 2025 Critical Patch Update Risk Matrices
• Oracle Advisory to CVE Map

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