{"id":7983,"date":"2021-07-07T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:49:42","slug":"microsoft-releases-emergency-updates-for-printnightmare-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-releases-emergency-updates-for-printnightmare-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases Emergency Updates For PrintNightmare Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft recently released an emergency security update to fix the actively exploited PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability, which allows attackers to take over affected servers via remote code execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security researcher, Matthew Hickey has confirmed that the patch released by Microsoft to fix the actively exploited PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability only fixes remote code execution (RCE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not resolve the local privilege escalation (LPE), both of which are used in attacks to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges on a vulnerable system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft urges its customers to install out-of-band security updates as soon as possible to fix the vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-pushes-emergency-update-for-windows-printnightmare-zero-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released an emergency security update to fix the actively exploited PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/8015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}