CVE-2023-36874

This Metasploit module takes advantage of a bug in the way Windows error reporting opens the report parser. If you open a report, Windows uses a relative path to locate the rendering program. By creating a specific alternate directory structure, we can coerce Windows into opening an arbitrary executable as SYSTEM. If the current user is a local admin, the system will attempt impersonation and the exploit will fail.

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between June and July Patch Tuesdays. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239131 As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. Vulristics improvements I optimized the detection of the vulnerable product and the type […]

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a total of 130 new security flaws spanning its software, including six zero-day flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 130 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical and 121 are rated Important in severity. This is in addition to eight flaws the tech giant patched in its Chromium-based Edge browser towards the end of

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Microsoft Tags: Adobe Tags: Apple Tags: Android Tags: Cisco Tags: Fortinet Tags: MOVEit Tags: Mozilla Tags: SAP Tags: VMware Tags: CVE-2023-32049 Tags: CVE-2023-35311 Tags: CVE-2023-32046 Tags: CVE-2023-36874 Tags: CVE-2023-36844 For the July 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has issued security updates for 130 vulnerabilities, four of which are known to have been actively exploited. (Read more...) The post Update now! Microsoft patches a whopping 130 vulnerabilities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited on MacOS and iOS devices.

Four of the disclosed vulnerabilities — albeit “important” ones — have been detected being exploited in the wild: CVE-2023-32046, CVE-2023-32049, CVE-2023-35311 and CVE-2023-36874.

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.