Both are seeing active exploitation, according to Microsoft.Ĭhad McNaughton, technical community manager at Automox, called attention to CVE-2021-34458, a remote code execution flaw in the deepest areas of the operating system. Microsoft says this flaw is being exploited in the wild.īoth CVE-2021-33771 and CVE-2021-31979 are elevation of privilege flaws in the Windows kernel. Here’s hoping the updated fix resolves some of those issues for readers who’ve been holding out.ĬVE-2021-34448 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the scripting engine built into every supported version of Windows - including server versions.
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That patch seems to have caused a number of problems for Windows users. Thirteen of the security bugs quashed in this month’s release earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they can be exploited by malware or miscreants to seize remote control over a vulnerable system without any help from users.Īnother 103 of the security holes patched this month were flagged as “important,” which Microsoft assigns to vulnerabilities “whose exploitation could result in compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of user data, or of the integrity or availability of processing resources.”Īmong the critical bugs is of course the official fix for the PrintNightmare print spooler flaw in most versions of Windows ( CVE-2021-34527) that prompted Microsoft to rush out a patch for a week ago in response to exploit code for the flaw that got accidentally published online. At least four of the vulnerabilities addressed today are under active attack, according to Microsoft. Microsoft today released updates to patch at least 116 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software.
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