“Patch Tuesday” is an unofficial term used to refer to the second Tuesday of each month, when Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Google and other vendors regularly release software patches for their software products. Critical security updates are occasionally released outside of the normal Patch Tuesday cycle, but these are known as “Out-of-band” releases. Security updates for September 10th 2024 include 4 critical flaws under active exploitation among a total of 79 vulnerabilities this month.