Microsoft February 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates fix a zero

Microsoft February 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 51 flaws in multiple products including Microsoft Windows and Windows Components, Azure Data Explorer, Kestrel Web Server, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Windows Codecs Library, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Office and Office Components, Windows Hyper-V Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Teams.

It is interesting to note that this month, Microsoft did not address critical vulnerabilities. 50 vulnerabilities are rated Important and one is rated Moderate in severity.

None of the vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft this month is listed as under active exploit, only one of them is listed as publicly known at the time of release.

Microsoft February 2022 Patch Tuesday also addressed a publicly disclosed Elevation of Privilege zero-day in Windows Kernel tracked as CVE-2022-21989.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to elevate their privileges and execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

In order to exploit this flaw, an attacker needs to take additional actions prior to prepare the target environment.

both received a CVSS score of 8.8.

As usual, let me suggest reading “THE FEBRUARY 2022 SECURITY UPDATE REVIEW” published by the Zero Day Initiative, five of the bugs were addressed through the ZDI program.

Below is the complete list of vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft with the release of the February 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.