Security News > 2022 > July > Microsoft July 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes exploited zero-day, 84 flaws
Today is Microsoft's July 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 84 flaws.
This month's Patch Tuesday fixes an actively exploited zero-day elevation of privileges vulnerability.
Microsoft classifies a vulnerability as a zero-day if it is publicly disclosed or actively exploited with no official fix available.
The actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed today is tracked as 'CVE-2022-22047 - Windows CSRSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.
"An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges," explains Microsoft in an advisory published today.
Below is the complete list of resolved vulnerabilities and released advisories in the July 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-12 | CVE-2022-22047 | Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Microsoft products Windows Client Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 0.0 |