Microsoft Service Fabric Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (FabricScape) (CVE-2022-30137)

Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have discovered a new vulnerability in Microsoft’s Service Fabric – commonly used with Azure. Tracked as CVE-2022-30137, the vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with access to a compromised container to escalate privileges and gain control of the resource’s host Service Fabric node and the entire cluster.    … Continue reading “Microsoft Service Fabric Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (FabricScape) (CVE-2022-30137)”

Microsoft Patches 55 Vulnerabilities Including One Zero-day and Three Critical in the June 2022 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft released a new set of security patches with the June 2022 Patch Tuesday edition. In this month’s security advisory, Microsoft patched a total of 55 vulnerabilities including the Windows MSDT ‘Follina’ zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190). Out of these 55 vulnerabilities, three vulnerabilities were classified as Critical as they allow Remote Code Execution (RCE).     Microsoft … Continue reading “Microsoft Patches 55 Vulnerabilities Including One Zero-day and Three Critical in the June 2022 Patch Tuesday”

Microsoft Releases Patch for the Third-party ODBC Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-29972)

Microsoft has released a patch addressing a flaw in the Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse pipelines (tracked as CVE-2022-29972). The flaw affects the third-party Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver used to connect to Amazon Redshift in Azure Synapse pipelines and Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime (IR) and did not impact Azure Synapse as a … Continue reading “Microsoft Releases Patch for the Third-party ODBC Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2022-29972)”

Microsoft Patches 145 Vulnerabilities with 10 rated as Critical and Two Zero-Days in April 2022 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has released security fixes for several vulnerabilities including patches for zero-day vulnerabilities in its April 2022 Patch Tuesday.  Microsoft addresses 145 vulnerabilities in their April 2022 Patch Tuesday release. Out of these 145 vulnerabilities, 10 are rated as critical. The release also includes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities out of which one is known … Continue reading “Microsoft Patches 145 Vulnerabilities with 10 rated as Critical and Two Zero-Days in April 2022 Patch Tuesday”

Microsoft Patches 92 Vulnerabilities in March 2022 Patch Tuesday including 3 Zero-days

Microsoft has released security fixes for several vulnerabilities including patches for zero-day vulnerabilities in its March 2022 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft addresses 92 vulnerabilities in their March 2022 Patch Tuesday release. Out of these 92 vulnerabilities, three (3) are rated as critical. The release also includes fixes for three (3) publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. As of … Continue reading “Microsoft Patches 92 Vulnerabilities in March 2022 Patch Tuesday including 3 Zero-days”

Azure Open Management Infrastructure Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (OMIGOD, CVE-2021-38647)

As part of its monthly Patch Tuesday security updates, Microsoft has patched a collection of four vulnerabilities in OMI (Open Management Infrastructure), a mostly unknown application that the company has been silently installing on most Linux-based Azure virtual machines and related systems. OMI (Open Management Infrastructure) OMI, the app is the Linux equivalent of Microsoft’s … Continue reading “Azure Open Management Infrastructure Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (OMIGOD, CVE-2021-38647)”