Amazon RDS now supports Cumulative Update CU20 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022, and General Distribution Releases for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017 and 2019.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cumulative Update CU20 for SQL Server 2022 (RDS version 16.00.4205.1.v1), and General Distribution Releases (GDR) for SQL Server 2016 SP3 (RDS version 13.00.6460.7.v1), SQL Server 2017 (RDS version 14.00.3495.9.v1) and SQL Server 2019 (RDS version 15.00.4435.7.v1). The new CU20 and GDR releases address the vulnerabilities described in CVE-2025-49717, CVE-2025-49718 and CVE-2025-49719. Additionally, CU20 also includes important security fixes, performance improvements, and bug fixes. For additional information, see the Microsoft SQL Server 2022 CU20 documentation and GDR release notes KB5058717, KB5058714, KB5058722 and KB5058721.

We recommend that you upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to these latest versions using Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. You can learn more about upgrading your database instances by using Amazon RDS User Guide.

These updates are available in all AWS regions.