Printnightmare: Security vulnerability affects all Windows users
Already at the beginning of July, Microsoft warned about a security vulnerability that affects practically all Windows systems. The vulnerability is in Microsoft's printer service, which manages print jobs.
A problem with the Windows Print service allows attackers to remotely execute code. Microsoft has since released emergency patches for the vulnerability called "Printnightmare". published. According to security researchers, the updates should prevent remote code execution, but there is still a possibility to exploit locally with admin privileges. exploit.
Attackers have so far been able to exploit the vulnerability to install additional programs remotely or to set up user and admin accounts. Although Windows 7 is no longer supplied with security updates, Microsoft also provided a patch for the old operating system version. However, no updates are yet available for operating systems like Windows Server 2016.
Source: Golem
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