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Microsoft: New critical Outlook RCE bug exploited as zero-day
2024-02-14 20:08

Microsoft updated a security advisory today to warn that a critical Outlook bug was exploited in attacks as a zero-day before being fixed during this month's Patch Tuesday.

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit CVE-2024-21413 remotely in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.

"An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain high privileges, which include read, write, and delete functionality," Microsoft explains.

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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2024-02-13 CVE-2024-21413 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products
Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
network
low complexity
microsoft
critical
9.8