Tripwire's April 2024 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. Firsts on the list are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) and Chromium that resolve 2 spoofing vulnerabilities. Next on the patch priority list this month is a patch for Microsoft Office and Excel that resolves spoofing and remote code...

Tripwire's March 2024 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft, Google, and Apple. First on the patch priority list are patches for Windows Kernel and Multiple Apple products. These CVEs (CVE-2024-21338, CVE-2024-23296, CVE-2024-23225) have been added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Up...

Tripwire's February 2024 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft, ConnectWise, and Google. First on the patch priority list are patches for ConnectWise ScreenConnect, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows SmartScreen, and Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut files. These CVEs (CVE-2024-1709, CVE-2024...

Tripwire's January 2024 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Atlassian. First on the patch priority list are patches for Apple, Google Chromium V8, and Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. These CVEs have been added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. For...

Tripwire's December 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Google. First on the patch priority are patches for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve elevation of privilege, remote code execution, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Please note that CVE-2023-7024 for...

One of the most critical aspects of cybersecurity is ensuring that all software is kept up to date with the latest patches. This is necessary to cover any vulnerabilities that cybercriminals could take advantage of in order to infiltrate an organization and launch an attack. With the volume of updates and the effort needed to install and configure them,...

Tripwire's November 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve elevation of privilege, remote code execution, and spoofing vulnerabilities. Next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Office and...

Tripwire's October 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority is a patch for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolves a type confusion vulnerability. Next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Office that resolve 3 elevation of privilege...

Tripwire's September 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority are patches for Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) that resolve 5 vulnerabilities such as out of bounds memory access, type confusion, and use after free. Next on the patch priority list this month are patches for...

The evolution of the cyber threat landscape highlights the need for organizations to strengthen their ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate cyber risks before they evolve into security incidents. Known unpatched vulnerabilities are often exploited by criminals to penetrate Industrial Control Systems (ICS) environments and disrupt critical...

Tripwire's August 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, Teams, and Outlook. The patches resolve 10 issues including remote code execution, information disclosure, security feature bypass, and spoofing...

Tripwire's June 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Progress MOVEit. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for the Progress MOVEit Transfer application. An exploit targeting the MOVEit vulnerability CVE-2023-34362 has been recently added to the Metasploit Exploit Framework. Next...

Tripwire's May 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Edge. These patches resolve elevation and security feature bypass vulnerabilities. Up next are 3 patches for Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and Access that resolve remote code...

This piece was originally published on Fortra’s AlertLogic.com Blog. Thinking about your own network isn’t enough to keep your business safe and profitable. As more buyers, sellers, and partners collaborate ever more closely across the world, supply chain IT risks are rising with no slowdown in sight. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center,...

Tripwire's April 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Edge. These patches resolve over 15 vulnerabilities such as spoofing, type confusion, and use after free vulnerabilities. Up next are 3 patches for Microsoft Office,...

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Tripwire's March 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Google and Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month is a patch for Microsoft Office Outlook that resolves a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) that should be patched as soon as possible. This vulnerability has seen...

Tripwire's January 2023 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Office that resolve 6 vulnerabilities, including remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Next are patches for Adobe...

Tripwire's November 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel that resolve 8 vulnerabilities, including remote code execution, information disclosure, and security feature bypass vulnerabilities. Up next are...

Tripwire's October 2022 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities for Microsoft and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Chromium and Microsoft Edge based on Chromium. These patches resolve over 10 issues such as user-after-free, insufficient policy enforcement, and out-of-bounds write...