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Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 87 CVEs (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

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Successful exploitation would lead to the unauthorized disclosure of a user’s NTLMv2 hash, which an attacker could then use to authenticate to the system as the user. Microsoft patched 87 CVEs in its November 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with four rated critical, 82 rated important and one rated moderate. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8

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Microsoft’s May 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 71 CVEs (CVE-2025-32701, CVE-2025-32706, CVE-2025-30400)

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An authenticated attacker can leverage this vulnerability to elevate their privileges to administrator by exploiting a user after free condition. Microsoft patched 71 CVEs in its May 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with five rated critical and 66 rated as important. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 and rated as Important.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Five Eyes Rank 2023’s Most Frequently Exploited CVEs, While CSA Publishes Framework for AI System Audits

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Require phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for all users and on all VPN connections. For example, the paper suggests 19 questions to ask about AI security systems, organized into seven sub-categories, including authentication and access control; data sanitization; encryption and key management; and security monitoring.

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Microsoft’s September 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 79 CVEs (CVE-2024-43491)

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Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Administrative Tools Internet Explorer 11 Internet Information ServicesWorld Wide Web Services LPD Print Service Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server Core MSMQ HTTP Support MultiPoint Connector SMB 1.0/CIFS Advanced Services ASP.NET 4.6 This vulnerability was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 7.3

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

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The updates this month include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, Microsoft Dynamics, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps and Adobe Flash Player. This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client.

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CISA and NSA Cloud Security Best Practices: Deep Dive

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The content in the CSIs underscores the importance of concepts such as least privilege, limiting attack surface area and centralizing logs for auditing purposes, as well as the use of tools like key management services (KMS), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and modern encryption protocols. 0 to remote server administration ports.

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Microsoft’s August 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 118 CVEs (CVE-2022-34713)

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Azure Batch Node Agent. Azure Real Time Operating System. Azure Site Recovery. Azure Sphere. All three vulnerabilities require authentication and user interaction to exploit — an attacker would need to entice a target to visit a specially crafted Exchange server, likely through phishing. Microsoft ATA Port Driver.

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