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VERT Threat Alert: April 2019 Patch Tuesday Analysis

by Tyler Reguly on April 9, 2019

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s April 2019 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-825 on Wednesday, April 10th.

In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs 

CVE-2019-0803

This CVE describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Win32k that could allow an attacker to execute code in kernel mode, giving them full control over the system.

Microsoft has rated this as a 1 (Exploitation More Likely) on the Exploitability Index for their latest software release and a 0 (Exploitation Detected) on older software releases.

CVE-2019-0859

This CVE describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Win32k that could allow an attacker to execute code in kernel mode, giving them full control over the system.

Microsoft has rated this as a 1 (Exploitation More Likely) on the Exploitability Index for their latest software release and a 0 (Exploitation Detected) on older software releases.

CVE Breakdown by Tag

While historical Microsoft Security Bulletin groupings are gone, Microsoft vulnerabilities are tagged with an identifier. This list provides a breakdown of the CVEs on a per tag basis.

 

Tag
CVE Count
CVEs
Team Foundation Server
9
CVE-2019-0857, CVE-2019-0866, CVE-2019-0867, CVE-2019-0868, CVE-2019-0869, CVE-2019-0870, CVE-2019-0871, CVE-2019-0874, CVE-2019-0875
CSRSS
1
CVE-2019-0735
Open Source Software
1
CVE-2019-0876
Microsoft JET Database Engine
5
CVE-2019-0846, CVE-2019-0847, CVE-2019-0851, CVE-2019-0877, CVE-2019-0879
Windows SMB Server
1
CVE-2019-0786
Microsoft Windows
18
CVE-2019-0794, CVE-2019-0805, CVE-2019-0838, CVE-2019-0839, CVE-2019-0840, CVE-2019-0841, CVE-2019-0842, CVE-2019-0845, CVE-2019-0848, CVE-2019-0685, CVE-2019-0688, CVE-2019-0730, CVE-2019-0731, CVE-2019-0732, CVE-2019-0796, CVE-2019-0814, CVE-2019-0836, CVE-2019-0837
Microsoft Edge
1
CVE-2019-0833
Microsoft Graphics Component
4
CVE-2019-0802, CVE-2019-0803, CVE-2019-0849, CVE-2019-0853
Microsoft Scripting Engine
11
CVE-2019-0739, CVE-2019-0812, CVE-2019-0829, CVE-2019-0752, CVE-2019-0753, CVE-2019-0806, CVE-2019-0810, CVE-2019-0835, CVE-2019-0860, CVE-2019-0861, CVE-2019-0862
Microsoft Browsers
1
CVE-2019-0764
Windows Kernel
3
CVE-2019-0844, CVE-2019-0856, CVE-2019-0859
Windows Admin Center
1
CVE-2019-0813
Microsoft Exchange Server
2
CVE-2019-0858, CVE-2019-0817
Microsoft XML
5
CVE-2019-0790, CVE-2019-0791, CVE-2019-0792, CVE-2019-0793, CVE-2019-0795
Microsoft Office
8
CVE-2019-0822, CVE-2019-0823, CVE-2019-0824, (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The State of Security authored by Tyler Reguly. Read the original post at: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vulnerability-management/vert-april-2019-patch-tuesday/

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