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Week in review: Windows zero-day exploited, Patch Tuesday forecast, selecting a compliance solution

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2020-15999
Heap Buffer Overflow in FreeType Font Rendering in Google Chrome (CVE-2020-15999)
9.664%KEVPoC ×2
KEV
CVE-2020-16009
Type Confusion in Google Chromium V8 Engine Enables RCE via Crafted HTML Pages
8.848%KEVPoC ×2
KEV
CVE-2020-16010
Heap Buffer Overflow in Google Chrome for Android Enables Sandbox Escape
9.66%KEV
KEV
CVE-2020-17087
Windows Kernel Buffer Overflow Enables Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2020-17087)
7.85%KEV
KEV
CVE-2020-27955
Git LFS 2.12.0 allows Remote Code Execution
9.882%PoC ×5

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Git LFS vulnerability allows attackers to compromise targets’ Windows systems (CVE-2020-27955) A critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-27955) in Git Large File Storage (Git LFS), an open source Git extension for versioning large files, allows attackers to achieve remote code execution if the Windows-using victim is tricked into…

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