Hot off the press, it’s another issue of the Patch Tuesday blog! While the number of vulnerabilities is low this month, there are a number of high risk items administrators will want to patch right away including a few that will require additional remediation steps. This Patch Tuesday also includes updates for three vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed earlier this month. Let’s jump in.
Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability aka HiveNightmare/SeriousSAM
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36934 With a public proof-of-concept having been available for some time, administrators should prioritize taking action on CVE-2021-36934. Remediation for this vulnerability requires volume shadow copies for system files to be deleted. This is due to the nature of the vulnerability, as the files with the vulnerable permissions could be restored from a backup and accessed even after the patch is installed. Microsoft indicates they took caution not to delete users' backups, but the trade-off is that customers will need to do the chore themselves. We've updated our blog post with this additional information.
Windows LSA Spoofing Vulnerability aka ADV210003
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36942Another high priority action for patching teams is CVE-2021-36942. This update patches one of the vectors used in the PetitPotam attack. After applying this update there are additional configurations required in order to protect systems from other attack vectors using registry keys. The InsightVM team has included detection for the registry keys needed to enable EPA and SMB Signing in addition to the normal update. Please see < ..
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