Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, yielding just 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities — none listed as under active attack or already known to the public.
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We'll hold our verdict until tomorrow to see if Exploit Wednesday lives up to its name. But in the meantime, here's a look at Redmond's security bugs.
Two of the latest patches are listed as critical and both affect the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor. Oddly, the two critical bugs didn't get the highest CVSS ratings – but more on that in a bit.
CVE-2024-21407, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hyper-V with a severity rating of 8.1 CVSS, is listed as "less likely to be exploited" by Redmond.
