A Mark of the Web security alert vulnerability and three others have been exploited in the wild and are now covered by Redmond’s monthly patch batch.

With its latest Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft released 79 updates for the Windows platform and addressed for separate zero-day vulnerabilities.

Today is Microsoft' 2024 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 79 flaws, including three actively exploited and one publicly disclosed zero-days.

The C in these CVEs stands for Confusing Analysis Microsoft, in a low-key update to its September Patch Tuesday disclosures, has confirmed a just-fixed Internet Explorer vulnerability was exploited as a zero-day before it could be patched.

Four critical remote code execution bugs in Windows and three critical elevated privileges vulnerabilities will keep admins busy.

In total, there are 30 elevation of privilege flaws, 4 security feature bypass flaws, 23 remote code execution flaws, 11 information disclosure flaws, 8 denial of service flaws and 3 spoofing flaws. Fortunately, they’ve now all been patched by Microsoft.

Microsoft has just released the September 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for all supported versions of Windows 11 and Windows 10.

Yesterday was September 10, 2024, and you know what that means — it’s Patch Day, the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows. This time, 79 security vulnerabilities have been addressed,