Microsoft has published fixes for 141 separate vulnerabilities in its batch of August updates, fixing a total of 118 CVEs in multiple products. This is a new monthly record if you look at the CVE count.

Publicly disclosed computer security flaws are listed in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database. Its goal is to make it easier to share data across separate vulnerability capabilities (tools, databases, and services). These are the CVEs that jumped out at us.

Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool

CVE-2022-34713: is a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. This is a known to be exploited vulnerability which requires the target to open a specially crafted file. This CVE is a variant of the vulnerability publicly known as Dogwalk.

CVE-2022-35743: is another MSDT RCE vulnerability. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available, but we do know that user interaction is required and the attack vector is local, so this is very likely another case where a specially crafted file needs to be opened by the victim.

Microsoft Exchange

CVE-2022-30134: is a Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure vulnerability. This vulnerability is publicly disclosed but has not yet been detected in attacks. Affected products are Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 11, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 22, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU 23, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 23, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 12. Users vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. More details can be found on the Exchange Team Blog.

CVE-2022-24477: is a Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability. Affected products are Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 23, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 12, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 11, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 22, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU 23. Users vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. More details can be found on the Exchange Team Blog.

CVE-2022-24516: is another a Microsoft Exchange Server EoP vulnerability. Affected products are Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 23, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 12, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU 23, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 CU 11, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 22. Users vulnerable to this issue would need to enable Extended Protection in order to prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. More details can be found on the Exchange Team Blog.

Windows Point-to-Point Protocol

CVE-2022-30133: is a Windows Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) RCE vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted connection request to a remote access server (RAS) server, which could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on the RAS server machine. This vulnerability can only be exploited by communicating via port 1723. As a temporary workaround prior to installing the updates that address this vulnerability, you can block traffic through that port thus rendering the vulnerability unexploitable.

Windows Network File System

CVE-2022-34715: is a Windows Network File System (NFS) RCE vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. This vulnerability could be exploited over the network by making an unauthenticated, specially crafted call to a Network File System (NFS) service to trigger a Remote Code Execution (RCE). This vulnerability is not exploitable in NFSV2.0 or NFSV3.0. Prior to updating your version of Windows that protects against this vulnerability, you can mitigate an attack by disabling NFSV4.1. This could adversely affect your ecosystem and should only be used as a temporary mitigation.

Other vendors

Other vendors have synchronized their periodic updates with Microsoft. Here are few major ones that you may find in your environment.

Adobe has also released security updates for many of its products, including Acrobat, Reader, Adobe Commerce, and Magento Open Source. More details on the Adobe security site.

Cisco released security updates for numerous products this month.

Google released Android security updates.

SAP released 5 new Security Notes.

VMware released Security Advisory VMSA-2022-0022 and warned that a recently disclosed auth bypass flaw is now actively exploited.