Microsoft, Adobe Both Close More Than 70 Security Issues
As part of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft and Adobe each released over 70 fixes for security flaws in their products. One of the Microsoft patches addresses a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Microsoft’s Exchange server, which is likely to be under active exploitation.
According to Dustin Childs of Trend Micro, the flaw “allows a regular user to escalate privileges to any other user on an Exchange server,” which can enable them to “take over an account to send mail as a part of a phishing campaign, or […] take over the server”. Last year, a record number of over 16,500 vulnerabilities were published and security experts believe this year might see even more flaws being discovered.
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