Security News > 2024 > October > Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572)
For October 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released fixes for 117 security vulnerabilities, including two under active exploitation: CVE-2024-43573, a spoofing bug affecting the Windows MSHTML Platform, and CVE-2024-43572, a remote code execution flaw in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). About CVE-2024-43573 and CVE-2024-43572 As far as it can be deduced from the accompanying advisory, CVE-2024-43573 is similar to CVE-2024-38112, a vulnerability in MSHTML, a browser engine for the now deprecated Internet Explorer, which has … More → The post Microsoft patches two zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-43573, CVE-2024-43572) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-08 | CVE-2024-43573 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability | 8.1 |
| 2024-10-08 | CVE-2024-43572 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Microsoft Management Console Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | 7.8 |
| 2024-07-09 | CVE-2024-38112 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability | 0.0 |