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Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2023

Microsoft has taken gift-giving to the extreme, with approximately 80 patched CVEs, nine of them critical and five with a high CVSS score of 9.8.

It’s Patchentine o’clock, and Microsoft has taken gift-giving to the extreme, with approximately 80 patched CVEs, nine of them critical and five with a high CVSS score of 9.8. Three of the patched CVEs are also said to have been used in the wild , designating them as patched zero-days.

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\r\n As we do every month, Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched.

\r\n Note: There is an issue with this month’s patch and Windows server 2022 VMs with Secure Boot running on VMware ESXi version 7.0.x and below.…