Microsoft December 2024 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 71 vulnerabilities including an actively exploited zero-day.
16 vulnerabilities are rated Critical, 54 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity.
One of the issues addressed by Microsoft, tracked as CVE-2024-49138, is actively exploited in the wild.
The most severe flaw addressed by Microsoft is a Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-49112.