Crims find Microsoft and Fortinet flaws before the vendors issue fixes
is a Windows SmartScreen security feature bypass bug, and allows attackers to create malicious files that can bypass Mark-of-the-Web security features. While it's only rated 5.4/10, it's already being exploited by crooks demanding ransom payments. Remember, dear reader: CVSS is only a number and does not indicate real-world risks.. The TAG team has documented more than 100,000 downloads to date, mostly in Europe, so although this vulnerability only received a 5.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to a targeted server that uses the HTTP Protocol Stack , according to Microsoft. The miscreant could then execute code at SYSTEM level without any user interaction. "That combination makes this bug wormable — at least through systems that meet the target requirements," Childs noted.is another critical, 9.8-rated RCE bug that, according to Childs, is also potentially wormable. It's the result of a flaw in the Internet Control Message Protocol .
"An attacker could send a low-level protocol error containing a fragmented IP packet inside another ICMP packet in its header to the target machine," Microsoft explained."To trigger the vulnerable code path, an application on the target must be bound to a raw socket."
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