The Government has issued a high risk warning for some Microsoft users. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) has issued a warning against vulnerabilities fors ome Microsoft services and products. This includes Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Visual Studio and .NET Framework.
As per a report from CERT-IN, the vulnerabilities found in these Microsoft services are of severity and high risk. Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported which could bypass security restrictions in the given Microsoft services and products.
CERT-IN is a nodal agency under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. This government body is responsible for reporting bugs and cybersecurity threats like hacking and phishing attacks.
CERT has reported, “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in various Microsoft products which could be exploited by an attacker to escalate arbitrary code, disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions and perform denial of service (DoS) attack of the targeted system.”
Moreover, the government institution has advised the users of these Microsoft products to apply the latest security patch based on Microsoft’s September 2022 security update.
Security updates are available for the following Microsoft products and services:
.NET and Visual Studio
.NET Framework
Azure Arc
Cache Speculation
HTTP.sys
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
Microsoft Graphics Component
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office SharePoint
Microsoft Office Visio
Microsoft Windows ALPC
Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES)
Role: DNS Server
Role: Windows Fax Service
SPNEGO Extended Negotiation
Visual Studio Code
Windows Common Log File System Driver
Windows Credential Roaming Service
Windows Defender
Windows Distributed File System (DFS)
Windows DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface)
Windows Enterprise App Management
Windows Event Tracing
Windows Group Policy
Windows IKE Extension
Windows Kerberos
Windows Kernel
Windows LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Windows ODBC Driver
Windows OLE
Windows Photo Import API
Windows Print Spooler Components
Windows Remote Access Connection Manager
Windows Remote Procedure Call
Windows TCP/IP
Windows Transport Security Layer (TLS)
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