Blog Security Research Akamai’s Perspective on March’s Patch Tuesday 2024 Of the 60 CVEs patched this month, only two were critical and both were in Windows Hyper-V. Patching isn’t always as easy as pie, but let’s dig in anyway. As we do every month, the Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched. Of the 60 CVEs patched this month, only two were critical and both were in Windows Hyper-V. CVE-2024-21407 is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.1 and CVE-2024-21408 is a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability with a score of 4.8. \r\n In this blog post, 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. Be on the lookout for these insights in the days after every Patch Tuesday.…