After a relatively hefty Microsoft Patch Tuesday in April, this month’s security update from the company only included one critical vulnerability across its massive suite of products and services.
In all, May’s slate of vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft included 59 total CVEs, most of which are considered to be of “important” severity. There is only one moderate-severity vulnerability.
The lone critical security issue is CVE-2024-30044, a remote code execution vulnerability in SharePoint Server. An authenticated attacker who obtains Site Owner permissions or higher could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a specially crafted file to the targeted SharePoint Server. Then, they must craft specialized API requests to trigger the deserialization of that file’s parameters, potentially leading to remote code execution in the context of the SharePoint Server.
The Windows Mobile Broadband Driver also contains multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities:
CVE-2024-29997 CVE-2024-29998 CVE-2024-29999 CVE-2024-30000 CVE-2024-30001 CVE-2024-30002 CVE-2024-30003 critical vulnerability included microsoft patch tuesday other
