Patch Tuesday - July 2022

Last updated at Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:40:15 GMT

Microsoft’s updates for July's Patch Tuesday fix 86 CVEs, including two vulnerabilities in their Chromium-based Edge browser that were patched earlier in the month.

One 0-day vulnerability has been patched: CVE-2022-22047 affects all currently supported versions of Microsoft’s pervasive operating system. This is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS), a critical service that is often impersonated by malware. An attacker with an already-existing foothold can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM-level privileges. Two similar vulnerabilities in CSRSS (CVE-2022-22049 and CVE-2022-22026) were also fixed, likely as a result of Microsoft’s investigation into the in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2022-22047.

Four critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities were fixed today. CVE-2022-22029 and CVE-2022-22039 affect network file system (NFS) servers, and CVE-2022-22038 affects the remote procedure call (RPC) runtime. Although all three of these will be relatively tricky for attackers to exploit due to the amount of sustained data that needs to be transmitted, administrators should patch sooner rather than later. CVE-2022-30221 supposedly affects the Windows Graphics Component, though Microsoft’s FAQ indicates that exploitation requires users to access a malicious RDP server.

Over a third of today’s vulnerabilities (a whopping 32 CVEs) affect their Azure Site Recovery offering. Anyone making use of this VMWare-to-Azure backup solution should be sure to upgrade to version 9.49 of the Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Unified Setup, available in Update rollup 62.

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