Microsoft Patch Tuesday February 2024 includes actively exploited flaws
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Microsoft releases February 2024 security updates; four CVEs confirmed exploited in the wild, including critical issues requiring urgent patching.
On February 14, 2024, Microsoft released security patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities across its product line. The Japan Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) issued an alert identifying four vulnerabilities confirmed as actively exploited in the wild: CVE-2024-21351, CVE-2024-21412, CVE-2024-21410, and CVE-2024-21338. These flaws carry significant risk, allowing attackers to achieve remote code execution, application crashes, and full system compromise. IPA advised immediate application of the February 2024 security updates to all affected systems, particularly for organizations that had not yet deployed the patches. The advisory was updated twice—on February 19 and March 5, 2024—to add newly confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of additional CVEs.
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Source reporting: https://www.ipa.go.jp/archive/security/security-alert/2023/0214-ms.html
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