Welcome to this August Patch Tuesday Bulletin. We came close to the huge CVE count from July with 120 unique CVE’s, 6 technologies with critical updates, 2 zero-day vulnerabilities, and 1 of those zero days is publicly disclosed. It is an important month to be diligent with updates so we’ll get straight to the zero days. CVE-2020-1464, a spoofing vulnerability, and CVE-2020-1380, a remote code execution vulnerability, were both exploited prior to updates being released this month. CVE-2020-1464 is a spoofing vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass security features and load malicious files. This vulnerability was also publicly disclosed. CVE-2020-1380 is a scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution. Make sure you scan for these vulnerabilities and apply appropriate patches for Windows and Internet Explorer as soon as you can. Follow up and confirm updates were deployed to Edge and all Office Apps since these are also popular targets for malware and phishing. .NET also has critical updates so review and ensure those were applied throughout the environment.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of MS patches this month.