Microsoft Patch Tuesday
What Microsoft fixes on the second Tuesday of every month – straight from the official Security Update Guide: number of vulnerabilities, critical and already exploited ones (zero-days), affected products and the history of the last 24 months.
Patch Tuesday November 2024
90 of them published on Patch Tuesday (Tue, 12 Nov 2024), the rest added during the month. The month also contains 645 CVEs from other issuers that Microsoft ships in its own products (e.g. Chromium in Edge, Linux in Azure Linux) – they are not counted here. Microsoft Security Update Guide
Already exploited (zero-days)
Partner.Microsoft.Com Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure · MSRC
NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing Vulnerability
Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates) · KB5046617 KB5046696 KB5046615 KB5046616 · MSRC
Publicly disclosed beforehand
Active Directory Certificate Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates) · KB5046615 KB5046616 KB5046698 KB5046618 · MSRC
Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability
Critical vulnerabilities (6)
.NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Developer tools (.NET, Visual Studio …) · MSRC
Windows KDC Proxy Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates) · KB5046617 KB5046696 KB5046615 KB5046616 · MSRC
Microsoft Copilot Studio Elevation Of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Office · MSRC
Microsoft Azure PolicyWatch Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure · MSRC
Microsoft Windows VMSwitch Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Airlift.microsoft.com Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure · MSRC
Exploitation more likely according to Microsoft
Azure Stack HCI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure · MSRC
Windows NT OS Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates) · KB5046615 KB5046616 KB5046698 KB5046613 · MSRC
Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows, Windows ESU (Extended Security Updates) · KB5046615 KB5046616 KB5046698 KB5046613 · MSRC
Windows SMB Denial of Service Vulnerability
Show all 97 CVEs of this month
History of the last 24 months
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Number of Microsoft CVEs per Patch Tuesday by severity; the red dot shows the number of vulnerabilities already exploited. Click a month for the details.
| Month | CVE | Critical | Exploited (zero-day) | Publicly disclosed | Highest CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 1,475 | 94 | 1 | 1 | 10.0 |
| September 2026 | 998 | 131 | 2 | 0 | 10.0 |
| August 2026 | 457 | 84 | 1 | 3 | 10.0 |
| July 2026 | 663 | 75 | 3 | 1 | 10.0 |
| June 2026 | 220 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 10.0 |
| May 2026 | 162 | 46 | 3 | 3 | 10.0 |
| April 2026 | 181 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 10.0 |
| March 2026 | 97 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 10.0 |
| February 2026 | 61 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 9.8 |
| January 2026 | 124 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 9.9 |
| December 2025 | 65 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 10.0 |
| November 2025 | 71 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 |
| October 2025 | 180 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 10.0 |
| September 2025 | 94 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 10.0 |
| August 2025 | 116 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 10.0 |
| July 2025 | 137 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 9.9 |
| June 2025 | 72 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 9.8 |
| May 2025 | 80 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 10.0 |
| April 2025 | 132 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 9.9 |
| March 2025 | 65 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 9.3 |
| February 2025 | 66 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 9.0 |
| January 2025 | 165 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 9.9 |
| December 2024 | 75 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 9.8 |
| November 2024 | 97 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9.9 |
Sources
The tracker combines official, freely usable data sources – updated continuously:
- NVD (NIST) – CVEs, rating (CVSS), affected products
- CISA KEV – vulnerabilities confirmed by CISA as actively exploited
- CISA Vulnrichment – CISA assessment (SSVC) in the official CVE record
- FIRST EPSS – probability of exploitation
- Microsoft MSRC – Patch Tuesday: vulnerabilities, severity, updates
- PoC-in-GitHub – public proof-of-concept repositories
- Metasploit (Rapid7) – modules of the Metasploit Framework
- Exploit-DB (OffSec) – archive of public exploits (links only)
- Patch days: official vendor pages (linked per vendor) (Vendor patch days)
This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS data © FIRST.org.
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