Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday Addresses 44 CVEs

On August 10, Microsoft published its monthly security update, known as Patch Tuesday. In this month’s Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft addressed 44 CVEs, including seven rated critical.

This month’s release contains fixes for two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed, and one that was exploited in-the-wild as a zero-day.

This month's Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for:

• .NET Core & Visual Studio
• ASP .NET
• Azure
• Azure Sphere
• Microsoft Azure Active Directory Connect
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Microsoft Graphics Component
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office SharePoint
• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Scripting Engine
• Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
• Remote Desktop Client
• Windows Bluetooth Service
• Windows Cryptographic Services
• Windows Defender
• Windows Event Tracing
• Windows Media
• Windows MSHTML Platform
• Windows NTLM
• Windows Print Spooler Components
• Windows Services for NFS ONCRPC XDR Driver
• Windows Storage Spaces Controller
• Windows TCP/IP
• Windows Update
• Windows Update Assistant
• Windows User Profile Service

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.