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Microsoft on Tuesday fixed a total of 90 security flaws, including 10 zero-days, of which six have come under active exploitation in the wild.
Of the 90 bugs, seven are rated Critical, 79 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is also in addition to 36 vulnerabilities that the tech giant resolved in its Edge browser since last month.
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The Patch Tuesday updates are notable for addressing six actively exploited zero-days :
CVE-2024-38189 (CVSS score: 8.8) – Microsoft Project Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38178 (CVSS score: 7.5) – Windows Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8) – Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38106 (CVSS score: 7.0) – Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38107 (CVSS score: 7.8) – Windows Power Dependency Coordinator Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38213 (CVSS score: 6.5) – Windows Mark of the Web Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38213, which allows attackers to bypass SmartScreen protections, requires an attacker to send the user a malicious file and convince them to open it. Credited with discovering and reporting the flaw is Trend Micro’s Peter Girnus, suggesting that it could be a bypass for CVE-2024-21412 or CVE-2023-36025, which were previously exploited by DarkGate malware operators.
