Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2024 Security Update Review

Microsoft's February 2024 Patch Tuesday addresses 79 vulnerabilities—including five critical and multiple remote code execution and privilege escalation flaws—and Adobe released advisories for 29 vulnerabilities. The report highlights several zero-day flaws actively exploited in the wild (including SmartScreen, Internet Shortcut handling, and Exchange NTLM-related issues) that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, covers affected product families, and provides remediation guidance and Qualys detection/patching queries.