Microsoft’s January 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 97 CVEs

On January 11, Microsoft published its first monthly Patch Tuesday security update of 2022. This month, Microsoft addressed 97 CVEs, including nine rated critical and four zero-days.

This Patch Tuesday release fixes CVE-2022-21907, a remote code execution vulnerability in the HTTP Protocol Stack that received a CVSSv3 9.8 score and is considered to be wormable.

This month’s update includes patches for:

• .NET Framework
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Graphics Component
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office SharePoint
• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
• Open Source Software
• Windows Hyper-V
• Tablet Windows User Interface
• Windows Account Control
• Windows Active Directory
• Windows AppContracts API Server
• Windows Application Model
• Windows BackupKey Remote Protocol
• Windows Bind Filter Driver
• Windows Certificates
• Windows Cleanup Manager
• Windows Clipboard User Service
• Windows Cluster Port Driver
• Windows Common Log File System Driver
• Windows Connected Devices Platform Service
• Windows Cryptographic Services
• Windows Defender
• Windows Devices Human Interface
• Windows Diagnostic Hub
• Windows DirectX
• Windows DWM Core Library
• Windows Event Tracing
• Windows Geolocation Service
• Windows HTTP Protocol Stack
• Windows IKE Extension
• Windows Installer
• Windows Kerberos
• Windows Kernel
• Windows Libarchive
• Windows Local Security Authority
• Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service
• Windows Modern Execution Server
• Windows Push Notifications
• Windows RDP
• Windows Remote Access Connection Manager
• Windows Remote Desktop
• Windows Remote Procedure Call Runtime
• Windows Resilient File System (ReFS)
• Windows Secure Boot
• Windows Security Center
• Windows StateRepository API
• Windows Storage
• Windows Storage Spaces Controller
• Windows System Launcher
• Windows Task Flow Data Engine
• Windows Tile Data Repository
• Windows UEFI
• Windows UI Immersive Server
• Windows User Profile Service
• Windows User-mode Driver Framework
• Windows Virtual Machine IDE Drive
• Windows Win32K
• Windows Workstation Service Remote Protocol

For more information about the notable vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday, including the availability of patches and Tenable product coverage, please visit our blog.