Oracle addresses 171 CVEs in its second quarterly update of 2025 with 378 patches, including 40 critical updates.
Background
On April 15, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April 2025, the second quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 171 unique CVEs in 378 security updates across 32 Oracle product families. Out of the 378 security updates published this quarter, 10.6% of patches were assigned a critical severity. Medium severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 54.5%, followed by high severity patches at 32.3%. 
This quarter’s update includes 40 critical patches across 15 CVEs.
| Severity | Issues Patched | CVEs |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 40 | 15 |
| High | 122 | 52 |
| Medium | 206 | 98 |
| Low | 10 | 6 |
| Total | 378 | 171 |
Analysis
This quarter, the Oracle SQL Developer product family contained the highest number of patches at 103, accounting for 27.3% of the total patches, followed by Oracle Hyperion at 43 patches, which accounted for 11.4% 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.
| Oracle Product Family | Number of Patches | Remote Exploit without Auth |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle SQL Developer | 103 | 82 |
| Oracle Hyperion | 43 | 2 |
| Oracle Secure Backup | 42 | 35 |
| Oracle Communications | 34 | 22 |
| Oracle E-Business Suite | 31 | 26 |
| Oracle Commerce | 16 | 11 |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager | 15 | 11 |
| Oracle JD Edwards | 11 | 11 |
| Oracle Hospitality Applications | 8 | 5 |
| Oracle Database Server | 7 | 3 |
| Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database | 7 | 6 |
| Oracle REST Data Services | 6 | 5 |
| Oracle Analytics | 6 | 5 |
| Oracle Essbase | 4 | 2 |
| Oracle Communications Applications | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle Insurance Applications | 4 | 1 |
| Oracle MySQL | 4 | 2 |
| Oracle Policy Automation | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle Construction and Engineering | 3 | 2 |
| Oracle Financial Services Applications | 3 | 2 |
| Oracle Food and Beverage Applications | 3 | 2 |
| Oracle Java SE | 3 | 3 |
| Oracle PeopleSoft | 3 | 2 |
| Oracle Supply Chain | 3 | 0 |
| Oracle NoSQL Database | 2 | 2 |
| Oracle Retail Applications | 2 | 0 |
| Oracle Siebel CRM | 2 | 2 |
| Oracle Application Express | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle Autonomous Health Framework | 1 | 0 |
| Oracle GoldenGate | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle Graph Server and Client | 1 | 0 |
| Oracle Fusion Middleware | 1 | 1 |
Solution
Customers are advised to apply all relevant patches in this quarter’s CPU. Please refer to the April 2025 advisory for full details.
Identifying affected systems
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