Patch Tuesday - June 2023

Patch Tuesday - June 2023

It’s June, and it’s Patch Tuesday. The volume of fixes this month is typical compared with recent history: 94 in total (including Edge-on-Chromium). For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities: one in .NET/Visual Studio, and three in Windows Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM). Also patched: a critical SharePoint Elevation of Privilege vulnerability.

SharePoint: Critical EoP via JWT spoofing

SharePoint administrators should start by looking at critical Elevation of Privilege vulnerability CVE-2023-29357, which provides attackers with a chance at Administrator privileges on the SharePoint host, provided they come prepared with spoofed JWT tokens. Microsoft isn’t aware of public disclosure or in-the-wild exploitation, but considers exploitation more likely.

The FAQ provided with Microsoft’s advisory suggests that both SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019 are vulnerable. So far so good for SharePoint 2019, but there is a lack of clarity around a patch for SharePoint 2016.

Initially, neither the advisory nor the SharePoint 2016 Release history listed a relevant patch for SharePoint 2016. Microsoft has since updated both the SharePoint 2016 release history to include a link to the June security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016; however, the link incorrectly points to the May advisory, and should instead point to the June 2023 security update for SharePoint 2016 KB5002404.

Complicating matters further, KB5002404 does not mention CVE-2023-29357, and the advisory for CVE-2023-29357 still does not mention any patch for ..

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