Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2023 Microsoft has taken gift-giving to the extreme, with approximately 80 patched CVEs, nine of them critical and five with a high CVSS score of 9.8. It’s Patchentine o’clock, and Microsoft has taken gift-giving to the extreme, with approximately 80 patched CVEs, nine of them critical and five with a high CVSS score of 9.8. Three of the patched CVEs are also said to have been used in the wild , designating them as patched zero-days. \r\n \r\n As we do every month, Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched.  \r\n Note: There is an issue with this month’s patch and Windows server 2022 VMs with Secure Boot running on VMware ESXi version 7.0.x and below. They might not boot after installing KB5022842 .…