Weekly briefing
Week 51 · 15 Dec – 21 Dec 2025 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Act on3
Coming up8
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Microsoft Windows Use After Free Vulnerability
CVE-2025-62221
Same day: Message Center action date: MC1126353: Retirement of Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch Cmdlets by End of 2025
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Patch Tuesday, 13 January 2026
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
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End of support: 3 products
Advanced Threat Analytics 1.X; Dynamics CRM 2016 (Dynamics 365); Visual Studio 2022 , Version 17.10 (LTSC channel)
Same day: Message Center action date: MC1186368: Microsoft SharePoint: Update to custom scripting governance in App Catalog site
Changed1
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WAF - WAF Release - 2025-12-18
Cloudflare WAF changelog
How this list is chosen
Changes from 15 Dec 2025 – 21 Dec 2025 UTC and dates due up to 20 Jan 2026. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 7 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.
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