Microsoft reportedly acted on an NSA warning creating and issuing a secret out-of-band patch to the military and other high-value targets fixing CVE-2020-0601, a vulnerability affecting a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows.
Published reports stated that the NSA informed Microsoft of the vulnerability and this knowledge enabled Microsoft to quickly fix the problem and push out a patch, which was released to the general public today. Cybersecurity execs called the vulnerability a potential “force multiplier” for an attack and heaped praise on the NSA for telling Microsoft, a move that has not always taken place previously.
Synopsis said the patch for CVE-2020-0601 for the crypt32.dll was pushed out prior to today’s normal Patch Tuesday security rollout, although at this time the security firm does not have many details on the vulnerability itself.
“This is serious news, as the crypt32.dll is a module needed for securing the Microsoft Operating Systems. We still don’t know precisely what the bug is and how easily it could be exploited, as that hasn’t been fully disclosed yet, but there ar ..
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