Cyber Security

October Patch Tuesday harvest hauls in 117 CVEs – Sophos Information

October 27, 2024

Microsoft on Tuesday launched 117 patches touching 15 product households. Three of the addressed points, affecting Configuration Supervisor, Visible Studio, and Home windows, are thought of by Microsoft to be of Essential severity. At launch time, two of the problems addressed are recognized to be beneath exploit within the wild, with eight further CVEs extra more likely to be exploited within the subsequent 30 days by the corporate’s estimation. Three of this month’s points are amenable to detection by Sophos protections, and we embrace info on these in a desk under.
Along with these patches, the discharge contains advisory info on 4 Edge-related CVEs and one associated to twist (affecting CBL Mariner and Home windows), together with the standard servicing stack updates. We’re as at all times together with on the finish of this put up further appendices itemizing all Microsoft’s patches, sorted by severity, by predicted exploitability, and by product household.
By the numbers

Whole CVEs: 117
Publicly disclosed: 4
Exploited detected: 2
Severity

Essential: 3
Necessary: 110
Reasonable: 3
Low: 1

Influence

Distant Code Execution: 42
Elevation of Privilege: 28
Denial of Service: 26
Safety Characteristic Bypass: 7
Spoofing: 7
Info Disclosure: 6
Tampering: 1

CVSS base rating 9.0 or larger: 2
CVSS base rating 8.0 or larger: 25

Determine 1: Denial of service points make a exceptional displaying on this month’s patch assortment thanks partly to a lot of Home windows Cellular broadband-driver patches; extra on that in a second
Merchandise

Home windows: 93
Visible Studio: 8
365 Apps: 5
Workplace: 5
.NET: 4
Azure: 4
.NET Framework: 2
Excel: 2
Energy BI: 2
Configuration Supervisor: 1
DeepSpeed: 1
Defender for Endpoint for Linux: 1
Outlook for Android: 1
SharePoint: 1
Visible C++: 1

As is our customized for this record, CVEs that apply to multiple product household are counted as soon as for every household they have an effect on.

Determine 2: Just a few not often seen product households make an look on this month’s chart, however Home windows guidelines the roost
Notable October updates
Along with the problems mentioned above, a lot of particular gadgets advantage consideration.
CVE-2024-38124 – Home windows Netlogon Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityCVE-2024-43468 — Microsoft Configuration Supervisor Distant Code Execution Vulnerability
Each of this month’s CVEs with CVSS base scores of 9.0 or above include mitigation recommendation. The Config Supervisor difficulty (CVE-2024-43468), the extra extreme of the 2 with a 9.8 CVSS, additionally has particular directions. For the Netlogon difficulty (CVE-2024-38124), the next mitigations are provided (textual content courtesy of Microsoft):

Predictable Naming Conventions: Keep away from utilizing predictable naming conventions for area controllers to forestall attackers from renaming their machines to match the following identify to be assigned to a brand new area controller.
Safe Channel Validation: Be certain that the safe channel is validated towards extra than simply the pc identify of the machine it was delivered to. This might help stop attackers from impersonating the area controller by acquiring the deal with and ready for the appointment to occur.
Monitor for Renaming Actions: Implement monitoring for any suspicious renaming actions of computer systems throughout the community. This might help with early detection and prevention of potential assaults.
Enhanced Authentication Mechanisms: Think about using enhanced authentication mechanisms that transcend the present validation strategies to make sure the authenticity of the area controller and the safe channel.

As for the Configuration Supervisor difficulty, there are further steps required (textual content, once more, courtesy of Microsoft):
Clients utilizing a model of Configuration Supervisor specified within the Safety Updates desk of this CVE want to put in an in-console replace to be protected. Steering for find out how to set up Configuration Supervisor in-console updates is obtainable right here: Set up in-console updates for Configuration Supervisor.
The mitigation steering for the Configuration Supervisor difficulty additionally recommends that directors specify an alternate service account, moderately than the Pc account; extra info is obtainable right here.
[15 CVEs] – Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver DoS and RCE points
None of those points are as regarding because the Essential-severity CVE-2024-38161 cell broadband driver difficulty patched again in July, however the sheer quantity is exceptional, as is the truth that all of those require bodily entry (to plug in a USB drive) or proximity (enough for radio transmission).
CVE-2024-43485 — .NET and Visible Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
This Necessary-severity Denial of Service difficulty casts its .internet moderately extensively, affecting the platform not solely on Home windows however on Linux and macOS.
CVE-2024-43497 — DeepSpeed Distant Code Execution Vulnerability
It’s not frequent for a Low-severity difficulty to be named within the Patch Tuesday launch, however this one’s attention-grabbing for an additional purpose – it impacts DeepSpeed, Microsoft’s speed-and-scale optimization booster for deep-learning coaching. (We imagine this to be the first-ever Patch Tuesday bug affecting DeepSpeed, in addition to the primary Microsoft discover credited to an AI-specific bug-bounty program.)
CVE-2024-43527 — Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityCVE-2024-43571 — Sudo for Home windows Spoofing Vulnerability
These two patches are much less notable for what they’re (although some observers could also be startled to see speak of sudo in a Patch Tuesday put up) than for what model of Home windows they have an effect on. Each of those Necessary-severity patches have an effect on solely Home windows 11 24H2, the OS model getting into basic launch this week.
CVE-2024-43573 — Home windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability
One of many two vulnerabilities recognized to be beneath lively exploit within the wild, this Reasonable-severity Spoofing difficulty will get into the Halloween spirit by invoking the ghost of Web Explorer. Clients who obtain Safety Solely updates are inspired to use the IE Cumulative updates to exorcise this vulnerability.

Determine 3: As we enter the final quarter of the 12 months, Denial of Service points are catapulted into third place on the leaderboard, whereas the DeepSpeed bug places a Low-severity patch on the board for the primary time in 2024
Sophos protections

CVE
Sophos Intercept X/Endpoint IPS
Sophos XGS Firewall

CVE-2024-43502
Exp/2443502-A
Exp/2443502-A

CVE-2024-43572
SID: 2310213; Troj/XML-AA, Troj/PastaLdr-A
SID: 2310213

CVE-2024-43573
SID: 2310220, 2310222; Exp/2443573-A
SID: 2310220, 2310221

As you may each month, in the event you don’t need to wait to your system to tug down Microsoft’s updates itself, you may obtain them manually from the Home windows Replace Catalog web site. Run the winver.exe device to find out which construct of Home windows 10 or 11 you’re operating, then obtain the Cumulative Replace package deal to your particular system’s structure and construct quantity.
Appendix A: Vulnerability Influence and Severity
This can be a record of October patches sorted by affect, then sub-sorted by severity. Every record is additional organized by CVE.
Distant Code Execution (42 CVEs)

Essential severity

CVE-2024-43468
Microsoft Configuration Supervisor Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43488
Visible Studio Code extension for Arduino Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43582
Distant Desktop Protocol Server Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-30092
Home windows Hyper-V Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38029
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38212
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38229
.NET and Visible Studio Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38261
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38262
Home windows Distant Desktop Licensing Service Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38265
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43453
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43480
Azure Service Cloth for Linux Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43504
Microsoft Excel Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43505
Microsoft Workplace Visio Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43517
Microsoft ActiveX Information Objects Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43518
Home windows Telephony Server Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43519
Microsoft WDAC OLE DB supplier for SQL Server Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43523
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43524
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43525
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43526
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43533
Distant Desktop Shopper Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43536
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43543
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43549
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43552
Home windows Shell Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43564
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43574
Microsoft Speech Utility Programming Interface (SAPI) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43576
Microsoft Workplace Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43581
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43589
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43592
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43593
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43599
Distant Desktop Shopper Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43601
Visible Studio Code for Linux Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43607
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43608
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43611
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43615
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43616
Microsoft Workplace Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-30092
Home windows Hyper-V Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38029
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38212
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38229
.NET and Visible Studio Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38261
Home windows Routing and Distant Entry Service (RRAS) Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

Reasonable Severity

CVE-2024-43572
Microsoft Administration Console Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

Low Severity

CVE-2024-43497
DeepSpeed Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

Elevation of Privilege (28 CVEs)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-37979
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38097
Azure Monitor Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38124
Home windows Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38129
Home windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-38179
Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43501
Home windows Frequent Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43502
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43503
Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43509
Home windows Graphics Part Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43511
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43514
Home windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43516
Home windows Safe Kernel Mode Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43522
Home windows Native Safety Authority (LSA) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43527
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43528
Home windows Safe Kernel Mode Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43529
Home windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43532
Distant Registry Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43535
Home windows Kernel-Mode Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43551
Home windows Storage Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43553
NT OS Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43556
Home windows Graphics Part Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43560
Microsoft Home windows Storage Port Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43563
Home windows Ancillary Operate Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43570
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43583
Winlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43590
Visible C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43591
Azure Command Line Integration (CLI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43604
Outlook for Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Denial of Service (26 CVEs)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-38149
BranchCache Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43483
.NET, .NET Framework, and Visible Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43484
.NET, .NET Framework, and Visible Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43485
.NET and Visible Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43506
BranchCache Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43512
Home windows Requirements-Based mostly Storage Administration Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43515
Web Small Pc Programs Interface (iSCSI) Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43521
Home windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43537
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43538
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43540
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43541
Microsoft Easy Certificates Enrollment Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43542
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43544
Microsoft Easy Certificates Enrollment Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43545
Home windows On-line Certificates Standing Protocol (OCSP) Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43555
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43557
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43558
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43559
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43561
Home windows Cellular Broadband Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43562
Home windows Community Tackle Translation (NAT) Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43565
Home windows Community Tackle Translation (NAT) Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43567
Home windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43575
Home windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43603
Visible Studio Collector Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

Reasonable severity

CVE-2024-43520
Home windows Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerability

Safety Characteristic Bypass (7 CVEs)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-20659
Home windows Hyper-V Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-37976
Home windows Resume Extensible Firmware Interface Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-37982
Home windows Resume Extensible Firmware Interface Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-37983
Home windows Resume Extensible Firmware Interface Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43513
BitLocker Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43584
Home windows Scripting Engine Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43585
Code Integrity Guard Safety Characteristic Bypass Vulnerability

Spoofing (7 CVEs)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-43481
Energy BI Report Server Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43550
Home windows Safe Channel Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43571
Sudo for Home windows Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43609
Microsoft Workplace Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43612
Energy BI Report Server Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43614
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux Spoofing Vulnerability

Reasonable severity

CVE-2024-43573
Home windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability

Info Disclosure (6 CVEs)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-43500
Home windows Resilient File System (ReFS) Info Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43508
Home windows Graphics Part Info Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43534
Home windows Graphics Part Info Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43546
Home windows Cryptographic Info Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43547
Home windows Kerberos Info Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43554
Home windows Kernel-Mode Driver Info Disclosure Vulnerability

Tampering (1 CVE)

Necessary severity

CVE-2024-43456
Home windows Distant Desktop Companies Tampering Vulnerability

Appendix B: Exploitability
This can be a record of the October CVEs judged by Microsoft to be both beneath exploitation within the wild or extra more likely to be exploited within the wild throughout the first 30 days post-release. The record is organized by CVE.

Exploitation detected

CVE-2024-43572
Microsoft Administration Console Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43573
Home windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing Vulnerability

Exploitation extra possible throughout the subsequent 30 days

CVE-2024-43502
Home windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43509
Home windows Graphics Part Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43556
Home windows Graphics Part Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43560
Microsoft Home windows Storage Port Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43581
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43583
Winlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43609
Microsoft Workplace Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2024-43615
Microsoft OpenSSH for Home windows Distant Code Execution Vulnerability

Appendix C: Merchandise Affected
This can be a record of October’s patches sorted by product household, then sub-sorted by severity. Every record is additional listed by CVE. Patches which might be shared amongst a number of product households are listed a number of instances, as soon as for every product household.
Home windows (93 CVEs)