6 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - June 2022
Patches for Follina, more NFS and LDAP vulnerabilities, and the beginning of the end for IE11.
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - May 2022
This month is par for the course in terms of both number and severity of vulnerabilities being patched by Microsoft. There is one 0-day this month: CVE-2022-26925, a Spoofing vulnerability in the Windows Local Security Authority (LSA) subsystem.
11 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - April 2022
From Defender to Windows, Office to Azure, this month’s Patch Tuesday has a large swath of Microsoft’s portfolio getting vulnerabilities fixed. 119 CVEs were addressed today, not including the 26 Chromium vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Edge browser.
8 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - March 2022
March 2022's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft addressing 71 CVEs (excluding Chromium/Edge), 3 of which are considered Critical.
6 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - February 2022
February 2022's fixes from Microsoft are relatively light as far as Patch Tuesdays go.
10 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - January 2022
The first Patch Tuesday of 2022 sees Microsoft publishing fixes for over 120
CVEs across the bulk of their product line, including 29 previously patched CVEs
affecting their Edge browser via Chromium. None of these have yet been seen
exploited in the wild, though six were publicly disclosed prior to today. This
includes two Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in open source
libraries that are bundled with more recent versions of Windows: CVE-2021-22947
[https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - December 2021
This month’s Patch Tuesday comes in the middle of a global effort to mitigate Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228.
8 min
InsightVM
Using InsightVM to Find Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228
How to use InsightVM or Nexpose to detect exposure to Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 in your environment, plus additional detail about how our various vulnerability checks work under the hood.
4 min
InsightVM
InsightVM Scan Diagnostics: Troubleshooting Credential Issues for Authenticated Scanning
Scan Diagnostics will report a “vulnerable” result against assets when the Scan Engine is supplied with credentials but unable to gather local information.
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - October 2021
Today’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft issuing fixes
[https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Oct] for over 70 CVEs,
affecting the usual mix of their product lines. From Windows, Edge, and Office,
to Exchange, SharePoint, and Dynamics, there is plenty of patching to do for
workstation and server administrators alike.
One vulnerability has already been seen exploited in the wild: CVE-2021-40449
[https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-40449] is
an elev
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - February 2021
The second Patch Tuesday of 2021 is relatively light on the vulnerability count,
with 64 CVEs being addressed across the majority of Microsoft’s product
families. Despite that, there’s still plenty to discuss this month.
Vulnerability Breakdown by Software Family
FamilyVulnerability CountWindows28ESU14Microsoft Office11Browser9Developer Tools
8Microsoft Dynamics2Exchange Server2Azure2System Center2Exploited and Publicly
Disclosed Vulnerabilities
One zero-day was announced: CVE-2021-1732
[https:
2 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - May 2020
Microsoft's fifth Patch Tuesday
[https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/releasenotedetail/2020-May]
of the year brings us fixes for 111 different security issues, just a touch
under what we saw from them last month [/2020/04/14/patch-tuesday-april-2020/]
but still on the higher side of their typical volume. No 0-days to speak of, and
no vulnerabilities that had been publicly disclosed before today.
The bulk of this month's fixes, as well as most of the critical ones, are fo
5 min
Vulnerability Management
How to Measurably Reduce False Positive Vulnerabilities by Up To 22%
Today, we discuss how to measurably reduce false positive vulnerabilities so you can reallocate your team's time and resources.
3 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - January 2020
The first Patch Tuesday of 2020 has been hotly anticipated due to a rumour
[https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1216763957446422528] that Microsoft would
be fixing a severe vulnerability in a fundamental cryptographic library. It
turns out that the issue in question is indeed serious, and was reported to
Microsoft by the NSA: CVE-2020-0601
[https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0601]
is a flaw in the way Windows validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
c
2 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - October 2019
This month's Patch Tuesday
[https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/releasenotedetail/28ef0a64-489c-e911-a994-000d3a33c573]
is mainly notable in that there isn't a whole lot to note, which is a change of
pace. No 0-days, no vulnerabilities that had been publicly disclosed already,
and nothing that could allow worms to proliferate. And nothing from Adobe
[https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html]. Of course, that doesn't mean there's
nothing to do: Microsoft still published 59 CVE