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Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

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The vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0708 ) resides in the “remote desktop services” component built into supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 , and Windows Server 2008. “This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction,” Pope said.

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Microsoft rolled out emergency updates to fix Windows Server auth failures

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Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address authentication issues affecting Windows Server. Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to fix authentication failures related to Kerberos delegation scenarios impacting Domain Controllers (DC) running Windows Server. ” warns Microsoft.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2022 Edition

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The flaw affects Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008 through 2022. “This allows attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack to force domain controllers to authenticate to the attacker using NTLM authentication,” Wiseman said. in certain situations. in certain situations.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2021 Edition

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Unlike the four zero-days involved in the mass compromise of Exchange Server systems earlier this year, CVE-2021-42321 requires the attacker to be already authenticated to the target’s system. ’ This vulnerability affects Windows 7 – 11 and Windows Server 2008 – 2019 and should be a high priority for patching.”

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Edition

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.” The final zero day in this month’s Patch Tuesday is a problem in the “Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver” tracked as CVE-2023-36036 that affects Windows 10 and later, as well as Windows Server 2008 at later.

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Microsoft: Attackers Exploiting ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Flaw

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The flaw is present in most supported versions of Windows Server, from Server 2008 through Server 2019. A domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests in a Windows environment, and a compromised domain controller can give attackers the keys to the kingdom inside a corporate network.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition

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Perhaps most troubling of these ( CVE-2020-1301 ) is a remote code execution bug in SMB capabilities built into Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems — both operating systems that Microsoft stopped supporting with security updates in January 2020.