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Patch Tuesday August 2026: ~398 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days, and One the Norks Already Used
Microsoft shipped fixes for roughly 398 CVEs on 11 August. Three are zero-days, one is under active exploitation by Lazarus, and the vendor tallies disagree by nearly 30.
How to Download Maven for Windows and Verify It Safely
To download Maven for Windows, grab the binary zip from the official Apache site, verify its checksum, and set JAVA_HOME plus PATH. Here is the full, safe walkthrough.
PHP-CGI Argument Injection RCE on Windows (CVE-2024-4577) Explained
CVE-2024-4577 revived a decade-old PHP-CGI flaw through a Windows Unicode 'best-fit' quirk, yielding unauthenticated RCE. Here's the mechanism and the patched versions.
Semgrep Community Fall 2025: Native Windows and 3x Multicore
Semgrep's Fall 2025 Community Edition ships native Windows binaries, a memory-efficient multicore engine, and up to 3x scan speedups. We benchmarked it.
Follina (CVE-2022-30190) Explained: Code Execution From a Word Document With Macros Off
CVE-2022-30190, Follina, abused the Windows MSDT protocol handler so a Word document could run PowerShell — no macros, no enable-content click. Here is the ms-msdt mechanism.
PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) Explained: When the Windows Print Spooler Ran Code as SYSTEM
CVE-2021-34527, PrintNightmare, let an authenticated attacker load a malicious printer driver through the Windows Print Spooler and execute code as SYSTEM — locally or across a domain.
CVE-2018-1271: Path traversal in Spring MVC static resour...
A path traversal flaw in Spring MVC's static resource handling let attackers on Windows deployments escape the web root and read arbitrary files.
Patch Tuesday June 2026: ~200 Flaws, 6 Zero-Days, and a Wormable Kernel RCE
Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday is among the largest on record — roughly 200 fixes, six zero-days including one exploited in the wild, and a top-severity Windows Kernel RCE. Here's what actually matters.
CVE-2021-3331: How the WinSCP URL Handler RCE Works
CVE-2021-3331 is a critical remote code execution flaw in WinSCP's URL handling before 5.17.10. Here is how a crafted link triggers it and how to fix it.
CVE-2026-41089: The Unauthenticated Netlogon RCE That Owns Your Domain Controller
CVE-2026-41089 is a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Windows Netlogon: an integer overflow in MS-NRPC handshake parsing leads to a stack overflow on domain controllers, with no credentials or user interaction required.
Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday: No Zero-Days, but Two CVSS 9.8 Wormable RCEs
Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped without a single exploited zero-day for the first time since June 2024, but it still carried two unauthenticated CVSS 9.8 remote code execution bugs in core Windows services that every domain should treat as emergency patches.
Windows NTLM Hash Disclosure CVE-2025-24054: The Protocol That Won't Die
CVE-2025-24054 leaks NTLM hashes through .library-ms files with minimal user interaction. Microsoft patched it in April 2025, but exploitation started almost immediately.
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