Weekly briefing
Week 7 · 14 Feb – 20 Feb 2022 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Act on1
Coming up4
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Patch Tuesday, 8 March 2022
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
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Microsoft Exchange Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2018-8581
Same day: CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Windows Installer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2022-21882
Changed3
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Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2014-1761
How this list is chosen
Changes from 14 Feb 2022 – 20 Feb 2022 UTC and dates due up to 22 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.