Microsoft is publishing 66 new vulnerabilities today, which is far fewer than one would expect in recent months. There’s a lone exploited-in-the-wild zero-day vulnerability, which Microsoft assesses as critical severity, although there’s apparently no public disclosure yet.
Three critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities are patched today; happily, Microsoft currently assesses all three as less likely to see exploitation. Five browser vulnerabilities and a dozen or so fixes for Azure Linux (aka Mariner) have already been published separately this month, and are not included in the total.
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Source: Rapid7
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