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In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs
Up first in the list this month, we have a vulnerability that impacts .NET and Visual Studio and could allow a successful attacker to elevate their permissions. We see patches for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and macOS as well as .NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1. Microsoft indicates that while this has been publicly disclosed, it has not been exploited in the wild. There are additional details regarding this vulnerability available on the dotnet github page.
Microsoft has rated this as Exploitation Less Likely on the latest software release on the Exploitability Index.
Once again, we have a Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability in the patch round-up. This time, it is a security feature bypass and is one of the Exchange vulnerabilities that was found during PWN2OWN 2021.
Microsoft release patches to fix critical bugs: Report
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Wed, Mar 10 2021 12:42 IST |
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San Francisco, March 10 : Microsoft has released 89 security fixes for software including the Edge browser, Office and Azure that patch critical issues including vectors for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
During the tech giant s standard monthly patch round, Microsoft released a slew of patches to fix vulnerabilities in software including Azure, Microsoft Office products such as PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Visio alongside the Edge browser and Internet Explorer.
This also includes seven out-of-band fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server which were released last week, four of which are classed as zero-days, reports ZDnet.