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CVE-2023-28252
Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between February and March Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. I took the comments about the vulnerabilities from the Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, ZDI Patch Tuesday reviews. And this is […]
Hello everyone! This episode and will be about latest news in my Vulristics project. EPSS v3 The third iteration of the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) was released in March. It is stated that EPSS has become 82% better. There is a pretty cool and detailed article about the changes. For example, EPSS Team began to analyze not 16 parameters […]
Microsoft zero-days, dark web forum takedowns and Pentagon leaks on Discord in this week's newsletter.
Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Microsoft Tags: Apple Tags: Google Tags: Adobe Tags: Cisco Tags: SAP Tags: Mozilla Tags: CVE-2023-28252 Tags: CVE-2023-28231 Tags: CVE-2023-21554 Tags: Word Tags: Publisher Tags: Office One fixed vulnerability is being actively exploited by a ransomware gang and many others were fixed in this month's Patch Tuesday updates. (Read more...) The post Update now! April’s Patch Tuesday includes a fix for one zero-day appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
It's the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released another set of security updates to fix a total of 97 flaws impacting its software, one of which has been actively exploited in ransomware attacks in the wild. Seven of the 97 bugs are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in severity. Interestingly, 45 of the shortcomings are remote code execution flaws, followed by 20
Microsoft today released software updates to plug 100 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day vulnerability that is already being used in active attacks. Not to be outdone, Apple has released a set of important updates addressing two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being used to attack iPhones, iPads and Macs.
The April 2023 Patch Tuesday security update also included a reissue of a fix for a 10-year-old bug that a threat actor recently exploited in the supply chain attack on 3CX.
April is the third month in a row in which at least one of the vulnerabilities Microsoft released in a Patch Tuesday had been exploited in the wild prior to disclosure.