7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - May 2022
This month is par for the course in terms of both number and severity of vulnerabilities being patched by Microsoft. There is one 0-day this month: CVE-2022-26925, a Spoofing vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) subsystem.
11 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - April 2022
From Defender to Windows, Office to Azure, this month’s Patch Tuesday has a large swath of Microsoft’s portfolio getting vulnerabilities fixed. 119 CVEs were addressed today, not including the 26 Chromium vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Edge browser.
8 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - March 2022
March 2022's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft addressing 71 CVEs (excluding Chromium/Edge), 3 of which are considered Critical.
6 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - February 2022
February 2022's fixes from Microsoft are relatively light as far as Patch Tuesdays go.
10 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - January 2022
The first Patch Tuesday of 2022 sees Microsoft publishing fixes for over 120
CVEs across the bulk of their product line, including 29 previously patched CVEs
affecting their Edge browser via Chromium. None of these have yet been seen
exploited in the wild, though six were publicly disclosed prior to today. This
includes two Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in open source
libraries that are bundled with more recent versions of Windows: CVE-2021-22947
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - December 2021
This month’s Patch Tuesday comes in the middle of a global effort to mitigate Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228.
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - October 2021
Today’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft issuing fixes
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Oct] for over 70 CVEs,
affecting the usual mix of their product lines. From Windows, Edge, and Office,
to Exchange, SharePoint, and Dynamics, there is plenty of patching to do for
workstation and server administrators alike.
One vulnerability has already been seen exploited in the wild: CVE-2021-40449
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40449] is
an elev
7 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - September 2021
Microsoft has fixed a total of 60 vulnerabilities this month, including two publicly disclosed 0-days. Here’s three big things you can go patch right now.
6 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - August 2021
Hot off the press, it’s another issue of the Patch Tuesday blog! While the
number of vulnerabilities is low this month, there are a number of high risk
items administrators will want to patch right away including a few that will
require additional remediation steps. This Patch Tuesday also includes updates
for three vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed earlier this month. Let’s
jump in.
Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability aka HiveNightmare/SeriousSAM
http://msrc.microsoft.com/
9 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - July 2021
Microsoft has patched another 117 CVEs
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Jul], returning to
volumes seen in early 2021 and most of 2020. It would appear that the recent
trend of approximately 50 vulnerability fixes per month was not indicative of a
slowing pace. This month there were 13 vulnerabilities rated Critical with
nearly the rest being rated Important. Thankfully, none of the updates published
today require additional steps to remediate, so administrators should b
5 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - June 2021
It is another low volume Patch Tuesday this month as Microsoft releases fixes
for 50 vulnerabilities. This should not diminish the importance of speedily
applying the updates. 6 of the vulnerabilities being patched this month are
0-days under active exploitation (CVE-2021-31955
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31955],
CVE-2021-31956
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31956],
CVE-2021-33739
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/updat
5 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - May 2021
Here we are again with another installment of Patch Tuesday. When compared to
the past few months this one feels a bit light both in severity and number of
vulnerabilities addressed. Microsoft has only released patches for 55 CVEs this
month, less than half of the usual volume, with only 4 of them being scored as
critical. Let's dive into the details.
HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - CVE-2021-31166
[http://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-
4 min
Vulnerability Disclosure
Patch Tuesday Dashboard Template Release
Patch Tuesday introduces numerous vulnerabilities and their solutions that apply to many, if not nearly all, devices. Keeping up with the deployment of these patches is often challenging.
9 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - April 2021
Patch Tuesday is here again and there are more Exchange updates to apply! A
total of 114 vulnerabilities were fixed this month with more than half of them
affecting all versions of Windows, with about half of them being remote code
execution bugs, and about a fifth of them being rated as critical by Microsoft.
Let's dive in!
New Exchange Server Patches Available
If you were only going to patch one thing today, please let it be this. Exchange
Server has been a hot topic since the vulnerabilities
9 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - March 2021
Another Patch Tuesday (2021-Mar
[http://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Mar]) is upon us and
with this month comes a whopping 122 CVEs. As usual Windows tops the list of
the most patched product. However, this month it’s browser vulnerabilities
taking the second place, outnumbering Office vulnerabilities 3:1! Lastly, the
Exchange Server vulnerabilities this month are not to be ignored as more than
half of them have been seen exploited in the wild.
Vulnerability Breakdown by S