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Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, May 12, 2020

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

System Affected

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)
  • Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
  • ChakraCore
  • Internet Explorer
  • Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps
  • Windows Defender
  • Visual Studio
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • .NET Framework
  • .NET Core
  • Power BI

Risk

Government

  • Large and medium government entities: HIGH
  • Small government entities: MEDIUM

Businesses

  • Large and medium business entities: HIGH
  • Small business entities: MEDIUM

Home Users

LOW