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Silver Spring, United States / Maryland, 15th January 2025, CyberNewsWire

CVE-2024-44243, a critical macOS vulnerability discovered recently by Microsoft, can allow attackers to bypass Apple’s System Integrity Protection…

Company has issued patches for an unprecedented 159 CVEs, including eight zero-days, three of which attackers are already exploiting.

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three "zero-day" weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond's inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company has shipped in one go since 2017.

Emergent macOS vulnerability lets adversaries circumvent Apple's System Integrity Protection (SIP) by loading third-party kernels.

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21176 | .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 8.0 and .NET 9.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by loading a specially crafted file in Visual Studio. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/111425 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 8.0 application running on .NET 8.0.11 or earlier. * Any .NET 9.0 application running on .NET 9.0.0 or earlier. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects...

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21172 | .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 8.0 and .NET 9.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by loading a specially crafted file in Visual Studio. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/111424. ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 8.0 application running on .NET 8.0.11 or earlier. * Any .NET 9.0 application running on .NET 9.0.0 or earlier. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affect...

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21171 | .NET Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 9.0. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the vulnerable web server. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/111423 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 9.0 application running on .NET 9.0.0 or earlier. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects any Microsoft .NET project if it uses any of affected packages versions list...

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Microsoft has shed light on a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple macOS that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker running as "root" to bypass the operating system's System Integrity Protection (SIP) and install malicious kernel drivers by loading third-party kernel extensions. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-44243 (CVSS score: 5.5), a medium-severity bug