Such as we mentioned in the morning Microsoft just started making them available security updates for Patch Tuesday August 2020.
This month, the company managed to fix 120 vulnerabilities across 13 different products, from Edge, Windows, to SQL Server and the .NET Framework.
Μεταξύ των 120 τρωτών σημείων που επιδιορθώθηκαν αυτόν τον μήνα, 17 σφάλματα χαρακτηρίστηκαν σαν “Κρίσιμα” αλλά υπάρχουν και δύο zero day – ευπάθειες που εκμεταλλευόταν οι hackers πριν κυκλοφορήσει η Microsoft τις σημερινές updates.
1st zero day
The first zero day fixed this month is a bug in the Windows operating system. It has been recorded as CVE-2020-1464, and Microsoft states that if an attacker could exploit it, it could incorrectly validate file signatures.
Intruders can use this error to "bypass security features and upload unsigned files."
As with all Microsoft security advisories, the technical details of the error have not been made public for obvious reasons.
2st zero day
As for the second zero day, it has been recorded as CVE-2020-1380 and it exists in its scripting engine Internet Explorer.
Microsoft said it had received a report from Kaspersky that hackers had discovered a remote code execution error (RCE) on the IE script machine and that they were using it in real-world attacks.
While the error is in the IE scripting engine, and that other native Microsoft applications are affected, such as the Office suite.
This is because Office applications use the IE scripting engine to integrate and render web pages within Office documents, a feature where the scripting engine plays an important role.
This means that the error can be exploited by attracting users to malicious websites or by sending them trapped Office files.
Below is some useful information about today's Microsoft Patch Tuesday, as well as security updates released by other companies this month that sysadmins may need to deal with in addition to the Microsoft batch.