Vulnerabilitycritical
Analyzing the vulnerability landscape in Q2 2024
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-0199 | Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Office and WordPad via crafted document files | 7.8 | 99% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×6 | KEV |
| CVE-2017-11882 | Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office via Legacy Equation Editor | 7.8 | 100% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×10 | KEV |
| CVE-2018-0802 | Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office Equation Editor | 7.8 | 93% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×3 | KEV |
| CVE-2021-4034 | Out-of-Bounds Read/Write Local Privilege Escalation in polkit pkexec (PwnKit) | 7.8 | 95% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×4 | KEV |
| CVE-2021-40444 | Remote Code Execution via MSHTML Rendering Engine in Microsoft Windows/Office (CVE-2021-40444) | 8.8 | 98% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×2 | KEV |
| CVE-2022-0847 | Local Privilege Escalation ('Dirty Pipe') in the Linux Kernel | 7.8 | 93% | KEVPoC ×4 | KEV |
| CVE-2022-30190 | MSDT URL Protocol Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Windows (Follina) | 7.8 | 99% | KEVRansomwarePoC | KEV |
| CVE-2023-2640 | On Ubuntu kernels carrying both c914c0e27eb0 and "UBUNTU | 7.8 | 15% | PoC | |
| CVE-2023-36884 | Race Condition RCE in Microsoft Windows Search | 7.5 | 99% | KEVRansomware | KEV |
From the original article
10 min read at securelist.com
Q2 2024 was eventful in terms of new interesting vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques for applications and operating systems. Attacks through vulnerable drivers have become prevalent as a general means of privilege escalation in the operating system. Such attacks are notable in that the vulnerability does not have to be fresh, since attackers themselves deliver unpatched drivers to the system.
By @Securelist · securelist.com
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