Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry.
For the third month in a row, Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of publication. Today sees the publication of 16 critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, which is more than usual. Two browser vulnerabilities have already been published separately this month, and are not included in the total.
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Source: Rapid7
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