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This week, Microsoft has confirmed another major discovery of security vulnerabilities impacting users of its products. Amidst the blur that is a report of more than 90 security issues in all, there sit fourand two of these, Microsoft confirmed, are being actively exploited by threat actors. Here’s what you need to know and do.
Microsoft has a very Microsoft-centric way of assessing a zero-day threat. Whereas most security professionals agree that the term relates to a vulnerability that has already been exploited by the time the vendor or any security professional discovers it, Microsoft instead uses a definition of a vulnerability that has been publicly disclosed as well as those under active attack. So it is that Microsoft includes four zero-days in the.
CVE 2024-43451 is a NT LAN Manager hash disclosure spoofing vulnerability that can expose a crucial part of the NTLM authentication protocol to an attacker. “NTLM hashing is a method used to protect passwords by converting them into a fixed-length string of characters, which is then transmitted for authentication purposes,” Ryan Braunstein, the team lead of security operations at Automox, said.
With the zero-days and four critical-rated vulnerabilities included in the mix, the Patch Tuesday security updates affect Microsoft users of the Windows OS, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server, .Net and Visual Studio. “The Microsoft Windows OS updates should be your top priority this month as they resolve both known and exploited vulnerabilities,” Chris Goettl, vice president of security product management at Ivanti, said.
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