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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, 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 Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Edition

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Security firm Action1 says all three bugs ( CVE-2023-32015 , CVE-2023-32014 , and CVE-2023-29363 ) can be exploited over the network without requiring any privileges or user interaction, and affected systems include all versions of Windows Server 2008 and later, as well as Windows 10 and later.

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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 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 recommends Exchange admins to disable the SMBv1 protocol

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It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism. Since 2016, Microsoft is urging admins to stop using SMBv1, later versions of the protocol implemented security enhancements, such as encryption, pre- authentication integrity checks to prevent man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, and insecure guest authentication blocking.

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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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