{"id":173963,"date":"2023-10-11T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-haunted-by-zero-days-wormable-bug"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:24:50","slug":"microsoft-patch-tuesday-haunted-by-zero-days-wormable-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-haunted-by-zero-days-wormable-bug","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patch Tuesday Haunted by Zero-Days, Wormable Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-haunted-by-zero-days-wormable-bug2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informatech.co\/3Ff6TaR\">https:\/\/informatech.co\/3Ff6TaR<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wirelesswench\">@wirelesswench<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microsoft flagged two zero-day security vulnerabilities under active attack in October\u2019s Patch Tuesday update, which affect Microsoft WordPad and Skype for Business. The release also features a critical-rated, wormable bug in Message Queuing that could instill terror for admins of vulnerable systems.<\/p>\n<p>The two bugs are part of a cadre of 103 total CVEs addressed by the computing giant this month. The patches run the gamut of Microsoft\u2019s portfolio, including Azure, ASP.NET, Core, and Visual Studio; Exchange Server; Office, Microsoft Dynamics, and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Appropriately for October, the number of critical-rated vulnerabilities comes in at an unlucky 13; and notably, a full 20% of the fixes in the update relate to Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/informatech.co\/3Ff6TaR by @wirelesswench Microsoft flagged two zero-day security vulnerabilities under active attack in October\u2019s Patch Tuesday update, which affect Microsoft WordPad and Skype for Business. The release also features a critical-rated, wormable bug in Message Queuing that could instill terror for admins of vulnerable systems. The two bugs are part of a cadre of 103 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}