Tenable releases coverage for Microsoft’s February 2020 Patch Tuesday

This month, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday includes patches for a staggering 99 CVE's across a variety of Microsoft products. This update contains 17 remote code execution flaws and 12 vulnerabilities rated as critical. This month’s updates include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Service and Web Apps, Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool and Windows Surface Hub.

An important fix this month is for CVE-2020-0674, a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The flaw was first reported as a zero-day exploited in the wild in January. While an out-of-band advisory was released to offer mitigation steps, the release for February includes a patch for this flaw and several additional memory corruption flaws found in the Microsoft Scripting Engine.

You can read more about our analysis of some of the most important updates from this months Microsoft Patch Tuesday on our blog.