Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on May’s Patch Tuesday 2023 Not too long ago in Redmond, Washington, USA …  \r\n It is a period of cyber war. Network admins working tirelessly to apply the new Patch Tuesday .  \r\n"}}"> Not too long ago in Redmond, Washington, USA …  It is a period of cyber war. Network admins working tirelessly to apply the new Patch Tuesday .  As we do every month, the Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched.  \r\n It seems the Force is with us this month, as there are only 40 CVEs this time, many fewer than in previous months. Seven of the patched CVEs were critical (one of them found by our very own Ben Barnea ), as well as two others with CVSS scores of 9.8 in PGM and NFS. Two of the patched CVEs are also said to have been used in the wild , designating them as patched zero-day vulnerabilities.…