Microsoft Patch Tuesday — May 2020: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Summary: Microsoft's May 2020 Patch Tuesday disclosed 111 vulnerabilities, 15 of them rated critical, along with 95 rated important and six low- and moderate-severity flaws. Cisco Talos disclosed CVE-2020-0901, a code execution vulnerability in Excel, and released Snort rules 53916-53919, 53924-53933, 53940, 53941, 53950 and 53951 to cover some of the patched flaws.
What you should know: Four of the critical bugs are remote code execution flaws in SharePoint, and CVE-2020-1069 can be triggered by uploading a specially crafted packet to a SharePoint server - no user action required, on a service many organizations expose broadly.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
Mentions: CVE-2020-0901 CVE-2020-1023 CVE-2020-1024 CVE-2020-1062 CVE-2020-1069 CVE-2020-1102 CVE-2020-1103
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