MICROSOFT WINDOWS – OCTOBER 2021 ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITIES

Priority: High Executive Summary: Microsoft has issued security updates to fix a total of 74 vulnerabilities including four zero-days in its October Patch Tuesday release including a Win32k Elevation of Privilege vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Out of these 74 vulnerabilities, three are classified as Critical, 70 as Important, and one […]

MICROSOFT MSHTML ZERO-DAY VULNERABILITY

Priority: Critical Executive Summary: Microsoft has reported a zero-day vulnerability in MSHTML affecting Microsoft Windows, targeting users to download a malicious Microsoft Office document. A proof-of-concept has been released to the public with Microsoft advising administrators to enforce a workaround until an official Microsoft patch is released. This is being tracked as CVE-2021-40444. The vulnerability […]