Microsoft addressed 139 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE’s) this month, four which were marked as zero-day vulnerabilities. The most critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE’s) are noted below:
Microsoft Vulnerabilities:
Windows Zero-Days:
- CVE-2024-38080 – Windows Hyper-V Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Actively being exploited in the wild.
- CVE-2024-38112 – Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability
- Actively being exploited in the wild.
- CVE-2024-35264 – .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Publicly disclosed vulnerability with 0 reports of being exploited in the wild.
- CVE-2024-37985 – Arm: CVE-2024-37985 Systematic Identification and Characterization of Proprietary Prefetchers
- Publicly disclosed vulnerability with 0 reports of being exploited in the wild.
Other Critical CVE’s:
- CVE-2024-38023 – Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2024-38060 – Microsoft Windows Codecs Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2024-38074/38076/38077 – Windows RDP Licensing Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
3rd Party Critical CVE’s:
Adobe Products:
- Adobe released 3 patches covering 7 CVE’s for Adobe Bridge, InDesign, and Premiere Pro.
Cisco:
Citrix:
- Citrix released security updates for Windows Virtual Delivery Agent
- Citrix released security updates for Citrix Workspace App
Firefox:
Fortinet:
OpenSSH:
- CVE-2024-6387 – RegreSSHion vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux
- CVE-2024-6409 – Possible RCE in privsep child due to a race condition in signal handling
VMWare:
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