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Microsoft patched May 2024 Tuesday including updates for 61 flaws and three publicly disclosed zero days. This update fixed Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
Category wise vulnerabilities are listed below:
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CVE-2025-20236
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CVE-2025-24054
Hackers Exploiting NTLM Spoofing Windows Vuln the in Wild
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MITRE warns: U.S. Govt. Funding for MITRE’s CVE Ends Today
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17 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities
27 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
7 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
3 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
4 Spoofing Vulnerabilities
The two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities are:
CVE-2024-30040 – Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability:
This vulnerability bypasses OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office which protect users from vulnerable COM/OLE controls.
An attacker would have to convince the user to load a malicious file onto a vulnerable system, typically by way of an enticement in an Email or Instant Messenger message, and then convince the user to manipulate the specially crafted file, but not necessarily click or open the malicious file.
“An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain code execution through convincing a user to open a malicious document at which point the attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the user.” reads the advisory.
CVE-2024-30051 – Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability:
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. Microsoft doesn’t share details about the attacks exploiting the above vulnerabilities.
You can click here for the full list of flaws addressed by Microsoft with the release of Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2024.
