CVE-2024-38112

The drama of Patch Tuesday often revolves around zero days, which in October’s haul of 117 vulnerabilities brings patch managers a total of five that have been publicly disclosed. Of those, Microsoft said that two are being actively exploited. The first is CVE-2024-43573, intriguingly a spoofing flaw in the Windows MSHTML component. If this doesn’t […]

For October 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, including two under active exploitation: CVE-2024-43573, a spoofing bug affecting the Windows MSHTML Platform, and CVE-2024-43572, a remote code execution flaw in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). About CVE-2024-43573 and CVE-2024-43572 As far as it can be deduced from the accompanying advisory, CVE-2024-43573 is similar to CVE-2024-38112, a vulnerability in MSHTML, a browser engine for the now deprecated Internet Explorer, which has … More →

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Critical VMware vCenter Server bugs fixed (CVE-2024-38812) Broadcom has released fixes for two vulnerabilities affecting VMware vCenter Server that can be triggered by sending a specially crafted network packet, and could lead to remote code execution (CVE-2024-38812) or privilege escalation (CVE-2024-38813). Apple releases iOS 18, with security and privacy improvements Apple has launched iOS 18, the latest significant iteration of … More →

A recently patched Windows MSHTML (Trident) Platform Spoofing Vulnerability had zero day exploitations since before July 2024, in conjunction with another MSHTML spoofing bug, according to Microsoft. Fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, CVE-2024-43461 is a critical (CVSS 8.8/10) user interface (UI) misrepresentation of critical information vulnerability that allows an attacker to spoof a […]

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platform and Progress WhatsUp Gold bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions for these vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-43461 – Microsoft this week […]

Microsoft warns that a recently patched Windows flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-43461, was actively exploited as a zero-day before July 2024. Microsoft warns that attackers actively exploited the Windows vulnerability CVE-2024-43461 as a zero-day before July 2024. The vulnerability CVE-2024-43461 is a Windows MSHTML platform spoofing issue. MSHTML is a platform used by Internet Explorer. Although […]

CVE-2024-43461, a spoofing vulnerability affecting Windows MSHTML – a software component used by various apps for rendering web pages on Windows – “was exploited as a part of an attack chain relating to CVE-2024-38112, prior to July 2024,” Microsoft has revealed. The latter vulnerability was patched by the company in July 2024, and threat hunters with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative explained that it had been used by the Void Banshee APT group to deliver … More →

Microsoft warns that a recently patched Windows vulnerability was exploited in the wild as a zero-day prior to July 2024.

In its July Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft fixed a zero-day flaw, CVE-2024-38112 (7.5 CVSS), in Trident, Microsoft’s proprietary browser engine for Internet Explorer. Microsoft called the vulnerability a spoofing flaw, while Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) team, which claimed credit for discovering the vulnerability, characterized the weakness as a remote execution flaw that deserved […]

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide Hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been made inoperable by a faulty update of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors, and the outage affected transport, broadcast, financial, retail and other organizations in Europe, Australia, the US and elsewhere. Here’s what we know. Critical Splunk flaw can be exploited … More →

Void Banshee APT group exploited the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 to execute code via the disabled Internet Explorer. An APT group tracked as Void Banshee was spotted exploiting the Windows zero-day CVE-2024-38112 (CVSS score of 7.5) to execute code through the disabled Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is a Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability. Successful exploitation of […]

An APT group has been exploiting a Windows vulnerability patched last week to trick users into downloading malicious files by unwittingly opening URLs in the retired Internet Explorer browser. The attack chain deploys information stealing malware and has been in use since May, when the flaw was still unknown to Microsoft. Researchers from Trend Micro, […]

The Void Banshee APT exploited the CVE-2024-38112 Windows zero-day to infect systems with the Atlantida stealer.

The zero-day exploit used to leverage CVE-2024-38112, a recently patched Windows MSHTML vulnerability, was wielded by an APT group dubbed Void Banshee to deliver malware to targets in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, threat hunters with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative have shared. How Void Banshee used CVE-2024-38112 As previously explained by Check Point researcher Haifei Li, the attackers used files that were specially crafted to exploit the vulnerability but were made to look … More →

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Hackers stole call, text records of “nearly all” of AT&T’s cellular customers Hackers leveraging stolen Snowflake account credentials have stolen records of calls and texts made by “nearly all” of AT&T’s cellular customers from May to October 2022, the company has confirmed. Critical vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol leaves networking equipment open to attack A new critical security vulnerability in … More →

CVE-2024-38112, a spoofing vulnerability in Windows MSHTML Platform for which Microsoft has released a fix on Tuesday, has likely been exploited by attackers in the wild for over a year, Check Point researcher Haifei Li has revealed. “Check Point Research recently discovered that threat actors have been using novel (or previously unknown) tricks to lure Windows users for remote code execution. Specifically, the attackers used special Windows Internet Shortcut files (.url extension name), which, when … More →

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-days. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; .NET and Visual Studio; Azure; Defender for IoT; SQL Server; Windows Hyper-V; Bitlocker and Secure(?) Boot; Remote Desktop; and […]

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are the descriptions of the flaws added to the KEV catalog: CVE-2024-23692 (CVSS score […]

by Haifei Li Introduction and Background Check Point Research recently discovered that threat actors have been using novel (or previously unknown) tricks to lure Windows users for remote code execution. Specifically, the attackers used special Windows Internet Shortcut files (.url extension name), which, when clicked, would call the retired Internet Explorer (IE) to visit the […]

For July 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates and patches that fix 142 CVEs, including two exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) in Windows Hyper-V and Windows MSHTML Platform (respectively). Zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) CVE-2024-38080 is a integer overflow or wraparound bug affecting Hyper-V, Windows’ native hypervisor for creating virtual machines on systems running Windows and Windows Server. Successful exploitation may allow attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on the host machine, but … More →

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft patches more than 140 security vulnerabilities in the Windows ecosystem, including a pair of exploited zero-days.

July 2024 Patch Tuesday is now live: Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) The US celebrated Independence Day last week, providing many with a long weekend leading into patch week. With summer vacations underway, many developers must be out of the office because June was fairly quiet regarding software updates. This included June 2024 Patch Tuesday, which saw Windows 10 and associated servers with 33 vulnerabilities addressed, while Windows 11 had 28 … More →