Microsoft September 2024 patches with four actively exploited flaws
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Four Microsoft vulnerabilities are confirmed exploited in the wild; urgent patching required via Windows Update.
The Japanese Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) has published a security alert on the September 2024 Microsoft monthly security update release (September 11, 2024 Japan time). The alert identifies four vulnerabilities in Microsoft products that have confirmed evidence of active exploitation in the wild: CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, and CVE-2024-43491. Microsoft has confirmed that these flaws are being actively exploited and risk further escalation.
Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in application crashes, arbitrary code execution, system compromise, or loss of system control to an attacker. IPA urges immediate patching through Windows Update, which typically deploys security updates automatically. Organizations managing update deployments should prioritize deployment of the September 2024 monthly security patches. Patching may require system restart. Further technical details are available from Microsoft's official monthly security update advisories.
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Source reporting: https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/security-alert/2024/0911-ms.html
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