Weekly briefing
Week 34 · 19 Aug – 25 Aug 2024 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Coming up4
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Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38106
Same day: CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Windows Power Dependency Coordinator Privilege Escalation Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Windows Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Project Remote Code Execution Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Privilege Escalation Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
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Patch Tuesday, 10 September 2024
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
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How this list is chosen
Changes from 19 Aug 2024 – 25 Aug 2024 UTC and dates due up to 24 Sep 2024. 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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