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Message : Required fields Zerologon has quickly become valuable to nation-state threat actors and ransomware gangs, making it imperative for organizations to apply these patches immediately if they have not yet done so. Background On February 9, as part of its February 2021 Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft released an additional patch for Zerologon to enable a security setting by default to protect vulnerable systems. CVE-2020-1472, also known as 'Zerologon,' is a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft's Netlogon Remote Protocol. It was initially patched ...

This move will block vulnerable connections from noncompliant devices, according to a Microsoft Security and Response Center blog post. DC enforcement mode requires both Windows and non-Windows devices to use secure Remote Procedure Call (RPC) with a Netlogon secure channel, unless a business has allowed an account to be exposed by adding an exception for a noncompliant device.  CVE-2020-1472 is a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) with a CVSS score of 10. It could enable an unauthenticated attacker to use MS-NRPC to connect to a domain controller and...