Microsoft released its monthly round of Patch Tuesday updates to address 84 new security flaws spanning multiple product categories, counting a zero-day vulnerability that’s under active attack in the wild. Of the 84 shortcomings, four are rated Critical, and 80 are rated Important in severity. Also separately resolved by the tech giant are two other bugs in the Chromium-based Edge browser, one of which plugs another zero-day flaw that Google disclosed as being actively exploited in real-world attacks.

Very little is known about the nature and scale of the attacks other than an “Exploitation Detected” assessment from Microsoft. The attacker could then execute code or access resources at a higher integrity level than that of the AppContainer execution environment.

The update further stands out for patching as many as 32 issues in the Azure Site Recovery business continuity service. Two of these flaws are related to remote code execution and the remaining 30 concern privilege escalation.

On top of that, Microsoft’s July update also contains fixes for four privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Windows Print Spooler module CVE , CVE , CVE , and CVE after a brief respite in June , underscoring what appears to be a never-ending stream of flaws plaguing the technology.

In addition to Microsoft, security updates have also been released by other vendors since the start of the month to rectify several vulnerabilities, including —. Sign up for cybersecurity newsletter and get latest news updates delivered straight to your inbox daily. Found this article interesting? Latest Stories.

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Don’t delay – patch today. Chrome browser gets 11 security fixes with 1 zero-day – update now! 6 Google, Google Chrome, Vulnerability. Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday security updates address no less than Fixes Vulnerabilities, including NSA-Reported High-Severity Zero-Day. The latest Patch Tuesday security update provides security patches for no less than 68 vulnerabilities, of which 11 are rated as critical in.