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Vulnerability patching is a recurring theme across WindowsForum.com discussions, covering a wide range of software and platforms. Recent threads detail critical and high-severity flaws in Microsoft Office, .NET, Azure Monitor, SharePoint Server, and Excel, as well as Linux kernel USB-C issues, ServiceNow, and Google Chrome on Android. Common advice includes applying vendor-supplied updates immediately, restricting public access where possible, and verifying patch levels. The tag reflects practical guidance on prioritizing and deploying fixes for disclosed CVEs, with an emphasis on understanding attack vectors and post-patch verification.
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    Barracuda Patches ESG Flaw Chain That Can Give Attackers Root Access

    Barracuda Networks has told customers to patch two appliance vulnerabilities. Barracuda describes them as a pre-authentication authorization bypass and a command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560. Chained together, they can give an attacker root on the device...
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    Italy Warns of ManageEngine Flaws: Patch Password Manager Pro, PAM360 and SharePoint Manager Plus

    Italy's national cybersecurity agency (ACN) has published an alert about three ManageEngine products, and two of them hold privileged passwords. CSIRT Italia, the ACN's incident response unit, issued alert AL01/261102/CSIRT-ITA on 2 November 2026. It covers three vulnerabilities rated "high" in...
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    Ivanti Connect Secure Exploit Chain: Upgrade Again and Investigate Exposed VPN Appliances

    Ivanti has finished patching the exploit chain that let attackers take root on fully patched Connect Secure VPN appliances. Some admins will have to upgrade again even though they patched quickly in October. The October fix closed the front door, and this release closes the two remaining links...
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    CISA KEV Adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL Injection Under Active Exploitation

    CISA's KEV Catalog gained a new entry on October 23, 2026: CVE-2026-114625, an SQL injection flaw in on-premises Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator. If your team runs its own SD-WAN orchestrator, treat this as a patch-now item. A read-only login is enough to exploit it, and attackers are already...
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    HPE Aruba AOS-8 and AOS-10 Security Update: Patch 72 Wi-Fi Controller Vulnerabilities

    HPE's Aruba wireless line has a big patch day to deal with. Its bulletin HPESBNW05162, released October 22, 2026, covers 72 vulnerabilities in the wireless operating systems AOS-8 and AOS-10. BleepingComputer reports that eight of them are maximum-severity authentication bypass and code...
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    CVE-2026-102255 SonicWall SMA1000 SSRF Exploit Attempts: Patch WorkPlace Now

    Three days. That's how long SonicWall's latest maximum-severity SMA1000 bug went between a patch and reports of hostile traffic aimed at it. A security researcher says his company's honeypots have seen exploitation attempts against CVE-2026-102255, a pre-authentication server-side request...
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    TeamViewer 15.82 Fixes Five High-Severity Flaws, Including Remote Session Permission Bypass

    TeamViewer has shipped fixes for five high-severity vulnerabilities in its Full Client and Host software for Windows, Linux and macOS, and it is asking users to install them quickly. The flaws are described in security bulletin TV-2026-1010, which TeamViewer published on Tuesday, September 29...
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    CVE-2026-63963: Update Linux Kernels to Fix USB-C Memory Leak

    CVE-2026-63963 is a newly published Linux kernel information-disclosure vulnerability in the USB Type-C Power Delivery stack, and it is a reminder that the devices connected to a modern USB-C port are not merely passive peripherals. The flaw affects the TCPM implementation used by Linux to...
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    CVE-2024-4879: Patch ServiceNow or Restrict Public Access

    CVE-2024-4879 and CVE-2024-5217 should have triggered an immediate containment-and-patching decision for any internet-facing ServiceNow Now Platform instance: apply the relevant fixed release first, and restrict public access while verification is incomplete. For ServiceNow-hosted tenants, the...
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    CVE-2026-55022: Patch Critical Office RCE in July 14 Updates

    Microsoft has fixed CVE-2026-55022, a Critical-rated Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability that could let an attacker run code after a user interacts with a malicious Office file. Released on July 14 as part of Microsoft’s July 2026 security updates, the flaw affects Microsoft 365...
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    CVE-2026-50526: Update .NET 8.0.29, 9.0.18 and 10.0.6

    Microsoft has patched CVE-2026-50526, a high-severity .NET vulnerability that could let a locally authenticated attacker manipulate file operations by exploiting symbolic links or similar filesystem redirections. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.0 and affects older releases of .NET 8, .NET...
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    CVE-2026-47632: Upgrade Azure Monitor Metrics Extension to 1.65

    Microsoft has fixed CVE-2026-47632, a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension that affects versions from 1.0.0 through anything earlier than 1.65. Administrators running the extension on Azure virtual machines or Azure Arc-enabled servers...
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    CVE-2026-50675: Excel RCE Fix for Malicious Spreadsheets

    CVE-2026-50675 is an Important-rated Microsoft Excel vulnerability that can let an attacker run code after a user opens malicious spreadsheet content. Microsoft published the flaw on July 14, 2026, with a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.8 and the vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The apparently...
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    CVE-2026-56164: Patch Exploited SharePoint Server Flaws Now

    CISA is warning administrators that CVE-2026-32201, CVE-2026-45659, and CVE-2026-56164 are being actively exploited against on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server deployments. The July 14 alert covers every supported on-premises branch—SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server...
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    CVE-2026-13885: Update Chrome Android to 150.0.7871.47

    CVE-2026-13885 affects Google Chrome on Android before version 150.0.7871.47. According to the Chrome-sourced description, crafted HTML can trigger a use-after-free condition in Skia and allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside Chrome’s sandbox. Chrome labels the vulnerability...
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    CVE-2026-13808 Fixed in Chrome for iOS 150.0.7871.47

    Google fixed CVE-2026-13808 in Chrome for iOS 150.0.7871.47, closing an insufficient-data-validation flaw that could let a local attacker with physical access to an iPhone or iPad extract potentially sensitive information from the browser’s process memory without requiring privileges or user...
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    CISA Warns: iDirect iQ-Series Satellite Terminals Exposed by Critical API Flaws

    On July 2, 2026, CISA published an industrial-control advisory warning that ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series satellite terminals running software version 4.5.2.1 or earlier contain two high-severity flaws affecting device information exposure and remote reboot behavior. The affected products sit...
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    CVE-2026-47292: RCE in VS Code MSSQL Extension—Patch Developer Workbench Risk

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-47292 as a remote code execution vulnerability in the Visual Studio Code MSSQL extension, placing a developer-facing database tool on the June 2026 security radar rather than the usual Windows endpoint or server patch list. The important part is not merely that...
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    CVE-2026-46046 Ext4 Buffer-Head Leak Fix: Why Missing brelse() Matters

    CVE-2026-46046, published by NVD on May 27, 2026 from kernel.org, is a Linux kernel ext4 vulnerability in which a missing brelse() call in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() can leak a buffer-head reference after an earlier extended-attribute hardening change. The bug is small enough to fit in a...
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    CVE-2026-42959: Unbound DNSSEC DoS Crash Fix (1.25.1) for Windows Networks

    CVE-2026-42959 is a denial-of-service vulnerability disclosed in May 2026 in NLnet Labs Unbound, where malicious upstream DNSSEC validation content can crash the resolver and interrupt DNS service for clients that depend on it. The practical story is not remote code execution or data theft; it...