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Two Zero-Day Exploits Found After Someone Uploaded 'Unarmed' PoC to VirusTotal

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read4 · 1 read
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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2018-4990
Double Free RCE in Adobe Acrobat and Reader
8.836%KEV
KEV
CVE-2018-8120
Local Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Win32k (Windows 7 / Server 2008)
7.073%KEVRansomwarePoC
KEV

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2 min read at thehackernews.com

Security researchers at Microsoft have unveiled details of two critical and important zero-day vulnerabilities that had recently been discovered after someone uploaded a malicious PDF file to VirusTotal, and get patched before being used in the wild .

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