Welcome to this November Patch Tuesday Bulletin. This month we have 61 unique CVE’s listed, 4 technologies with critical vulnerabilities, and 1 CVE being exploited in the wild. Take a look at which hosts are vulnerable to CVE-2018-8589. This is an elevation of privilege vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. The attacker will need to run a maliciously crafted application on the system to elevate their privileges. There have been recent reports of vulnerabilities found in self encrypting drives that could allow access to data on the disk when the attacker has physical access. Microsoft has released guidance on mitigating these vulnerabilities by forcing software encryption with BitLocker. Normally BitLocker will default to hardware encryption if it is present, but this can be changed through group policy. If affected disks are present in the environment then review the guidance and determine if the BitLocker mitigation is feasible. Review the environment for the existence of Azure App Service on Azure Stack, Team Foundation Server, and Dynamics 365. These are relatively new technologies in Patch Tuesday and may need a testing plan developed.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of MS patches that affect Windows platforms in the past month.