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Microsoft provides further mitigations for PrintNightmare exploit, awards it high severity Jul 4, 2021 01:12 EDT · Hot! with 7 comments
A couple of days ago, we learned of a new exploit called PrintNightmare which affects virtually all Windows devices. It makes use of the Windows Print Spooler service s unprotected functions to trigger remote code execution (RCE). The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) highlighted it as a critical vulnerability, with Microsoft actively investigating a fix. Now, the Redmond tech giant has provided more information on the matter.
PrintNightmare - which is being tracked under CVE-2021-34527 - has now been awarded a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base rating of 8.8. It is important to note that the CVSS v3.0 specification documentation defines this as a high severity vulnerability but it is dangerously close to the critical range which star