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Microsoft July 2019 Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day exploited by Russian hackers

July 9, 2019

Via: ZDnet

Earlier today, Microsoft published its monthly roll-up of security updates known as Patch Tuesday. This month, the Redmond-based company patched 77 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days — security flaws that were being actively exploited in the wild.

The two zero-days are CVE-2019-0880 and CVE-2019-1132, and both are privilege escalation issues.

They don’t allow hackers to take over users’ computers remotely, but are used after the hacker has gained access to a system to elevate access rights to a high-privileged account.

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