Overview

On July 10, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released a security update patch for July, which fixed 139 security issues involving Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Azure and other widely used products, including high-risk vulnerabilities such as privilege escalation and remote code execution.

Among the vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft’s monthly update this month, 5 are critical and 132 are important. These include 2 exploitable vulnerabilities:

Windows Hyper-V privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38080)

Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38112)

Please update patches for protection as soon as possible. For a complete list of vulnerabilities, see the appendix.

Reference link: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2024-Jul

Key Vulnerabilities

Screen out the vulnerabilities with great impact in this update according to product popularity and vulnerability importance. Please pay attention to them:

Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38023/CVE-2024-38024/CVE-2024-38094):

Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities are present in Microsoft SharePoint Server due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data within the Microsoft SharePoint Server. An attacker with site owner privileges or higher can execute arbitrary code in the context of SharePoint Server by uploading specially crafted files to the target SharePoint Server and making specialized API requests that trigger deserialization of file parameters.

Official Announcement Link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38023

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38024

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38094

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability of Windows Imaging Component (CVE-2024-38060):

The Windows Imaging component has a remote code execution vulnerability. Due to the buffer overflow issue in the Windows Imaging component, an attacker with ordinary user rights can upload malicious TIFF files to the server and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Official Announcement Link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38060

Remote code execution vulnerability of Windows remote desktop authorization service (CVE-2024-38074/CVE-2024-38076/CVE-2024-38077):

CVE-2024-38074: The Windows Remote Desktop Authorization Service has a remote code execution vulnerability. Due to integer underflow or wrapback issues in the Windows Remote Desktop Authorization Service, unauthenticated attackers can send special packets to the server set as the remote desktop authorization server, triggering integer underflow and executing arbitrary codes on the target system.

CVE-2024-38076/CVE-2024-38077: The Windows remote desktop authorization service has multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. Due to the heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows remote desktop authorization service, unauthenticated attackers can send special packets to the server set as the remote desktop authorization server, triggering the buffer overflow and executing arbitrary codes on the target system.

Official Announcement Link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38074

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38076

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38077

Windows Hyper-V privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38080):

Windows Hyper-V has a privilege escalation vulnerability. Due to integer overflow or wrapping issues in Windows Hyper-V, local attackers authenticated by ordinary users can exploit this vulnerability by running special programs to obtain SYSTEM permissions of the target system. At present, this vulnerability has been found to be exploited.

Official Announcement Link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38080

Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38112):

Windows MSHTML Platform has a spoofing vulnerability, which can be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker sending a special malicious file to the victim and tricking it into running due to improper input validation. At present, this vulnerability has been found to be exploited.

Official Announcement Link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38112

Scope of Impact

The following are some affected product versions that focus on vulnerabilities. For the scope of other products affected by vulnerabilities, please refer to the official announcement link.

Mitigation

Patch update

At present, Microsoft has officially released security patches to fix the above vulnerabilities for supported product versions. It is strongly recommended that affected users install patches as soon as possible for protection. The official download link:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2024-Jul

Note: Patch update of Windows Update may fail due to network problems, computer environment problems and other reasons. After installing the patch, users shall check whether the patch is successfully updated in time.

Right-click on the Windows icon, select “Settings (N)”, select “Updates and Security”-“Windows Updates” to view prompts on this page, or click “View Update History” to view historical updates. For updates that have not been successfully installed, you can click the name of the update to jump to Microsoft’s official download page. It is recommended that users click on the link on this page and go to the “Microsoft Update Catalog” website to download the independent package and install it.

Appendix: Vulnerability List

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