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Microsoft Patch Tuesday
September 2019

Microsoft's September 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes 81 vulnerabilities across Windows, Microsoft Office and Browser - 19 rated Critical, 3 publicly disclosed before the patch shipped, one already exploited in the wild. Patch CVE-2019-1367 first.

Released September 10, 2019, 10:00 PT1 actively exploited3 publicly disclosed61 KB articles to deploy

September 2019 Patch Tuesday at a glance

81
Microsoft CVEs
excl. Edge & Azure Linux
19
Critical
23% of the release
1
Actively exploited
CVE-2019-1367
3
Publicly disclosed
known before the patch
8.2
Highest CVSS
CVE-2019-1273
61
KB articles
what you actually deploy

Why this number differs from other roundups. Microsoft's September 2019 release document lists 97 entries. 15 are Azure Linux (Mariner) OS package updates and 1 are republished Chromium fixes for Edge - neither is a Microsoft product vulnerability. The 81 above is the real Patch Tuesday set. See the breakdown →

Priority order

Patch these first

Ranked by exploitation reality, not score alone. This month's exploited flaw is rated Critical - a severity-sorted list would bury it.

The numbers

What’s in this release

Where the 97 entries actually come from

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

81 Microsoft products15 Azure Linux (Mariner)1 Edge (Chromium)

Severity

Microsoft channel only · 81 CVEs

September 2019 severity breakdown
Critical19
Important61
Moderate1
Low0

Impact type

What an attacker gains if it works

September 2019 impact breakdown
Remote Code Execution29
Elevation of Privilege24
Information Disclosure15
Spoofing6
Security Feature Bypass4
Denial of Service3

Most-affected components

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

Microsoft Windows18Microsoft JET Database Engine9Microsoft Scripting Engine9Microsoft Graphics Component8Microsoft Office SharePoint7Windows Kernel4Windows RDP4Microsoft Office3Microsoft Exchange Server2Team Foundation Server2Windows Common Log File System Driver2Windows Hyper-V2
Every patch

Browse all 97 entries

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

Showing 81 of 81
81 Microsoft vulnerabilities in the September 2019 Patch Tuesday, sortable by severity, CVSS and exploit status.
TitleStatusKB
CriticalCVE-2019-1367Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5ExploitedMicrosoft Scripting Engine4517389 +11
ImportantCVE-2019-1235Windows Text Service Framework Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8DisclosedMicrosoft Windows4512578 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1253Windows Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8DisclosedMicrosoft Windows4512578 +4
ImportantCVE-2019-1294Windows Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityBypass5.3DisclosedMicrosoft Windows4512578 +2
CriticalCVE-2019-0787Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyWindows RDP4512578 +10
CriticalCVE-2019-0788Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyWindows RDP4512578 +8
CriticalCVE-2019-1290Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyWindows RDP4512578 +12
CriticalCVE-2019-1291Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5More likelyWindows RDP4512578 +14
CriticalCVE-2019-1257Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-More likelyMicrosoft Office SharePoint4475590 +3
CriticalCVE-2019-1295Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-More likelyMicrosoft Office SharePoint4475590 +3
CriticalCVE-2019-1296Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-More likelyMicrosoft Office SharePoint4475590 +2
ImportantCVE-2019-1215Windows Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8More likelyMicrosoft Windows4512578 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1285Win32k Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityEoP7.8More likelyWindows Kernel4512578 +14
ImportantCVE-2019-1219Windows Transaction Manager Information Disclosure VulnerabilityInfo Disc.5.5More likelyMicrosoft Windows4512578 +14
CriticalCVE-2019-1208VBScript Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +11
CriticalCVE-2019-1221Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE7.5—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +9
CriticalCVE-2019-1236VBScript Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.5—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +11
CriticalCVE-2019-1280LNK Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE7.3—Microsoft Windows4512578 +14
CriticalCVE-2019-1138Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +5
CriticalCVE-2019-1217Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +2
CriticalCVE-2019-1237Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +5
CriticalCVE-2019-1298Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +5
CriticalCVE-2019-1300Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption VulnerabilityRCE4.2—Microsoft Scripting Engine4512578 +6
CriticalADV190022September 2019 Adobe Flash Security UpdateRCE-—Adobe Flash Player4516115
CriticalCVE-2019-1306Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityRCE-—Team Foundation Server—
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 61 KB articles across every endpoint, staging them in rings, verifying installed state and producing the compliance evidence. See patch management →

Archive

Previous Patch Tuesdays

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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 81 vulnerabilities in September 2019, across Windows, Microsoft Office, Browser and Developer Tools. 19 are rated Critical, 3 were publicly disclosed before the patch shipped, and 1 was already being exploited. Note that Microsoft's release document lists 97 entries in total, but 15 of those are Azure Linux package updates and 1 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 1 Edge entries alongside Microsoft product fixes would inflate the headline number and imply work for your Windows Update rings that does not exist.