In total, including third-party CVEs, in this Patch Tuesday edition, Microsoft published 196 CVEs, including 21 republished CVEs. Overall, Microsoft announced 3 Zero-Day, 17 Critical, and 164 Important vulnerabilities. From an Impact perspective, Escalation of Privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 46%, while Remove Code Execution for 18% and Information Disclosure for 15%. Patches for this month…

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