Patch Tuesday June and Microsoft released new cumulative updates to all its operating systems. So if you're running Windows you should update them as soon as possible.
Patch Tuesday updates usually bring security improvements to Windows and in today's case versions, Microsoft says it resolves an elevation of privilege vulnerability.
We are dealing with a vulnerability to increase privileges (EOP from elevation of privilege) according to CVE-2022-30154 for the Microsoft File Server Shadow Copy Agent service. In order to protect yourself, you will have to install the update of June 14, 2022 ", the company states.
“The application server runs the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) which stores data to the remote Server Message Block 3.0 (or later version) that exists on a file server. The file server hosts the shared files. If you do not install the update on both machine roles, the features creationBackups made by applications may fail. For such failure scenarios, the Microsoft File Server Shadow Copy Agent service will log FileShareShadowCopyAgent event 1013 on the server files. For more information, see KB5015527.”
The new cumulative updates available today for Windows 10 are:
- Windows 10 version 1507 - KB5014710 (OS Build 10240.19325)
- Windows 10 version 1607 - KB5014702 (OS Build 14393.5192)
- Windows 10 version 1703 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 1709 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 1803 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 1809 - KB5014692 (OS Build 17763.3046)
- Windows 10 version 1903 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 1909 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 2004 - EOS
- Windows 10 version 20H2, 21H1 and 21H2 - KB5014699 (OS Builds 19042.1766, 19043.1766, and 19044.1766)
- Windows 11 cumulative update KB5014697
According to previous announcements by Microsoft, Windows 10 will continue to be supported until October 2025.
