Weekly briefing
Week 5 · 31 Jan – 6 Feb 2022 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Coming up4
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Patch Tuesday, 8 February 2022
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
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Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2022-21882
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Microsoft Exchange Server Information Disclosure
CVE-2021-33766
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Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2022-21882
How this list is chosen
Changes from 31 Jan 2022 – 6 Feb 2022 UTC and dates due up to 8 Mar 2022. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 3 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.
The briefing is selective. Browse every dated change, review upcoming dates or check the period's coverage.