On December 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft resolved 71 vulnerabilities in a variety of its products, including a zero-day (CVE-2024-49138) that’s been exploited by attackers in the wild to execute code with higher privileges. CVE-2024-49138 exploited by attackers CVE-2024-49138 stems from a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver and can be exploited by attackers to elevate their privileges on the target host to SYSTEM, according to Microsoft. The attack … More
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