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Microsoft Patch Tuesday
July 2019

Microsoft's July 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes 79 vulnerabilities across Windows, Browser and Developer Tools - 15 rated Critical, 5 publicly disclosed before the patch shipped, 2 already exploited in the wild. Patch CVE-2019-1132 first.

Released July 9, 2019, 10:00 PT2 actively exploited5 publicly disclosed69 KB articles to deploy

July 2019 Patch Tuesday at a glance

79
Microsoft CVEs
excl. Edge & Azure Linux
15
Critical
19% of the release
2
Actively exploited
CVE-2019-1132
5
Publicly disclosed
known before the patch
9.8
Highest CVSS
CVE-2019-0785
69
KB articles
what you actually deploy

Why this number differs from other roundups. Microsoft's July 2019 release document lists 107 entries. 28 are Azure Linux (Mariner) OS package updates and 0 are republished Chromium fixes for Edge - neither is a Microsoft product vulnerability. The 79 above is the real Patch Tuesday set. See the breakdown →

The numbers

What’s in this release

Where the 107 entries actually come from

Most roundups quote a single number. These are three unrelated release streams.

79 Microsoft products28 Azure Linux (Mariner)

Severity

Microsoft channel only · 79 CVEs

July 2019 severity breakdown
Critical15
Important63
Moderate1
Low0

Impact type

What an attacker gains if it works

July 2019 impact breakdown
Remote Code Execution29
Elevation of Privilege20
Information Disclosure17
Spoofing6
Denial of Service4
Security Feature Bypass3

Most-affected components

Where this month’s fixes concentrate - filter by any of them in the table below

Microsoft Graphics Component21Microsoft Windows14Microsoft Scripting Engine9Microsoft Office5Windows Kernel4Windows Media4.NET Framework3Microsoft Exchange Server3Azure DevOps2Microsoft Windows DNS2Visual Studio2ASP.NET1
Every patch

Browse all 107 entries

Sorted by risk by default: exploited first, then publicly disclosed, then severity, then CVSS. Search by CVE, title, component or KB number.

Showing 79 of 79
79 Microsoft vulnerabilities in the July 2019 Patch Tuesday, sortable by severity, CVSS and exploit status.
TitleStatusKB
ImportantCVE-2019-1132Win32k Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8ExploitedWindows Kernel4507449 +3
ImportantCVE-2019-0880Microsoft splwow64 Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.0ExploitedMicrosoft Windows4507435 +10
ImportantCVE-2019-1129Windows Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8DisclosedMore likelyMicrosoft Windows4507435 +4
ImportantCVE-2019-0865SymCrypt Denial of Service VulnerabilityDoS7.5DisclosedMicrosoft Windows4507435 +4
ImportantCVE-2018-15664Docker Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP-DisclosedOpen Source Software—
ImportantCVE-2019-0962Azure Automation Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP-DisclosedAzure—
ImportantCVE-2019-1068Microsoft SQL Server Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-DisclosedSQL Server4505217 +9
CriticalCVE-2019-1001Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507434 +9
CriticalCVE-2019-1004Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507434 +11
CriticalCVE-2019-1063Internet Explorer Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyInternet Explorer4507434 +11
CriticalCVE-2019-1104Microsoft Browser Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyMicrosoft Browsers4507434 +11
CriticalCVE-2019-1062Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507435 +6
CriticalCVE-2019-1092Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507435 +6
CriticalCVE-2019-1103Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507435 +6
CriticalCVE-2019-1106Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507435 +5
CriticalCVE-2019-1107Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2More likelyMicrosoft Scripting Engine4507435 +6
CriticalCVE-2019-1113.NET Framework Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-More likely.NET Framework4506986 +18
ImportantCVE-2019-0887Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE8.0More likelyMicrosoft Windows4507435 +16
ImportantCVE-2019-1067Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8More likelyMicrosoft Windows4507435 +6
ImportantCVE-2019-1089Windows RPCSS Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8More likelyWindows Kernel4507435 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1108Remote Desktop Protocol Client Information Disclosure VulnerabilityInfo Disc.6.5More likelyWindows RDP4507435 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1071Windows Kernel Information Disclosure VulnerabilityInfo Disc.5.5More likelyWindows Kernel4507435 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1073Windows Kernel Information Disclosure VulnerabilityInfo Disc.5.5More likelyWindows Kernel4507435 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1074Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP5.3More likelyMicrosoft Windows4507435 +3
ImportantCVE-2019-1112Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure VulnerabilityInfo Disc.-More likelyMicrosoft Office—
Your move

What your IT team should do

The same five steps every month, in the order that reduces risk fastest.

Test the known-issue candidates

Check the Windows release health dashboard before promoting past ring 1, and have the rollback path written down before you need it. Kernel, networking and authentication fixes are the ones that historically break things.

12 Patch Management Best Practices for 2026 →

Verify installed state, then evidence it

Confirm the patch is actually present on each endpoint rather than trusting that "deployment succeeded". Keep the resulting report - it is the artefact auditors ask for, and reconstructing it later is far more work than capturing it now.

Patch Management: The Complete Guide →

Trinetri does steps two through five automatically - detecting the 69 KB articles across every endpoint, staging them in rings, verifying installed state and producing the compliance evidence. See patch management →

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Patch Tuesday FAQ

Patch Tuesday falls on the second Tuesday of every month, with updates going live at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Microsoft introduced the practice in October 2003, following the Blaster worm, to cut distribution costs and give administrators a predictable cadence instead of patches arriving at random. The 10:00 a.m. timing is deliberate: it leaves a full working week to remediate before the weekend. Internally Microsoft calls it the "B" release; optional "C" and "D" preview releases follow later in the month. The next Patch Tuesday is November 10, 2026.

Microsoft fixed 79 vulnerabilities in July 2019, across Windows, Browser, Developer Tools and Microsoft Office. 15 are rated Critical, 5 were publicly disclosed before the patch shipped, and 2 were already being exploited. Note that Microsoft's release document lists 107 entries in total, but 28 of those are Azure Linux package updates and 0 are republished Chromium fixes for Edge, which is why other sources sometimes quote a much larger number.

Exploit Wednesday is the day after Patch Tuesday. Attackers compare the newly released patches against the previous version to locate the flaw each one fixes, then build working exploits from that difference - often within 24 to 48 hours. It is the reason the deployment window matters as much as the patch itself: every hour a Critical remote code execution fix sits undeployed is an hour of measurable exposure.

A workable target for most organisations: actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours, publicly disclosed ones within 72 hours, remaining Critical fixes within seven days, and everything else within the month. CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue sets binding deadlines for US federal agencies and is a reasonable benchmark for everyone else. Stage the rollout in rings rather than deploying everywhere at once, so a regression is caught on a pilot group instead of in production.

An out-of-band update is a patch released outside the monthly cycle because the risk will not wait for the next Patch Tuesday. Microsoft issues them for actively exploited flaws with no mitigation - most famously during the WannaCry outbreak in 2017, when it took the unusual step of patching versions of Windows that were already out of support.

Yes. Adobe aligned its releases with Patch Tuesday in November 2012, and both SAP's Security Patch Day and Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Updates are coordinated to the same week. Part of the reason is defensive: staggered releases let attackers reverse-engineer one vendor's patch to find the same underlying flaw in another's still-unpatched product. For IT teams it means the second Tuesday is rarely just a Microsoft problem.

Edge is built on Chromium, so most of its security fixes originate with the Chromium project and are republished by Microsoft under their own CVE identifiers. They ship on Chromium's cadence rather than the Patch Tuesday cycle, and they are delivered by Edge's own updater rather than Windows Update. Counting the 0 Edge entries alongside Microsoft product fixes would inflate the headline number and imply work for your Windows Update rings that does not exist.