Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2024 Security Update Review

July 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixed 142 vulnerabilities (including five critical and four zero-days actively exploited, e.g., CVE-2024-38112 and CVE-2024-38080) across Windows, Office, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop Licensing, Windows Codecs, SharePoint and many other components; Adobe issued three advisories for seven vulnerabilities. The report highlights high-risk RCE and elevation-of-privilege issues (multiple CVSS 9.8 entries), CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities listings, and provides Qualys QIDs/QQLs and mitigation/patching guidance to identify and remediate affected hosts.