Weekly briefing

Week 31 · 29 Jul – 4 Aug 2019 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.

What to assess first

29 Jul – 4 Aug · dates to 3 Sep Check coverage

Act on1

Aug2019
Known issueAug 2019
POST form semantics will be enforced more strictly - spaces and quotes will be ignored
Identity-platform authentication changes
Related evidence (2)
- App-only tokens for single-tenant applications are only issued if the client app exists in the resource tenant
  Public source · Same source page; the statements may concern different changes
- Redirect URIs can now contain query string parameters
  Public source · Same source page; the statements may concern different changes

Coming up1

13Aug
Patch TuesdayScheduled for 13 Aug 2019
Patch Tuesday, 13 August 2019
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.

Changed1

31Jul
Security31 Jul 2019
VMSA-2019-0012:VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds read/write vulnerabilities
VMware security advisories (Broadcom)

How this list is chosen

Changes from 29 Jul 2019 – 4 Aug 2019 UTC and dates due up to 3 Sep 2019. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.

Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 3 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.

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