Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on December’s Patch Tuesday 2023 This is the last Patch Tuesday of the year, everyone —  and it seems like Microsoft took off for the holidays as there are only 33 patched CVEs this month. Akamai, however, did not take off — a CVE from one of our own colleagues, Ben Barnea , is part of the patch. \r\n As we do every month, the Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched. Of the 33 CVEs patched this month, four are critical (but only three can achieve remote code execution [RCE]), with the highest CVSS score being 9.6. There were no CVEs reported as publicly disclosed or exploited in the wild this month. \r\n \r\n In this report, we’ll assess how critical the vulnerabilities really are, and how commonplace the affected applications and services are, to provide you with a realistic perspective on the bugs that were fixed.…