Microsoft’s January 2020 Patch Tuesday Resolves 49 Vulnerabilities
The official Patch Tuesday updates have arrived for January, including 49 vulnerability fixes. Today also marks the official end-of-life for Windows 7.
Exploring the Latest Patch Tuesday Updates
For the first month of the decade, Microsoft released 49 updates.
There are 8 Critical with the remaining 41 marked Important and 2 which we would consider Zero Day / 0-Day. Of the 41 Important updates, 21 are marked as CVSS score High.
End of an Era
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (including R2) has become end-of-life for general release of patches as of today.
In this release, there is a modest number of these, which we highly recommend you install as soon as possible. If you have not already done so, you should be looking at migrating to another operating systems (e.g. Windows 10 for continued support).
Zero Day Patches for Windows Remote Desktop Gateway
CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 have CVSS scores of 9.8. These are urgent because this vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction—it impacts Windows Server from 2012 onwards.
There are no counter measures available for this threat, therefore deploying these updates should be your IT Security Managers highest priority.
Urgent Patch Priority
The following patches have only been ranked as Important by Microsoft, however the independent CVSS Score has ranked these between 7.8 and up to 8.1. This would indicate these are important enough to prioritize.
- CVE-2020-0601
- CVE-2020-0613
- CVE-2020-0614
- CVE-2020-0620
- CVE-2020-0623
- CVE-2020-0624
- CVE-2020-0625
- CVE-2020-0626
- CVE-2020-0627
- CVE-2020-0628
- CVE-2020-0629
- CVE-2020-0630
- CVE-2020-0631
- CVE-2020-0632
- CVE-2020-0633
- CVE-2020-0634
- CVE-2020-0635
- CVE-2020-0636
- CVE-2020-0638
- CVE-2020-0641
- CVE-2020-0642
Based on those CVSS scores, these patches rank alongside some of Critical ones ranked by Microsoft.
Robert Brown, Director of Services for Syxsense said, “CVE-2020-0601 relates to CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability, which has a CVSS score of 8.1. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) strongly recommends organizations install these critical patches as soon as possible.”
Latest Adobe Updates
Adobe have released only 2 Critical updates for Illustrator CC and Experience Manager today. Both Syxsense and Adobe recommend these Critical updates be deployed within the next 7 days.
January 2020 Patch Tuesday Update
Based on the vendor severity and CVSS score, we have made a few recommendations to prioritize this month. Please pay close attention to any of these which are publicly aware or weaponized.
| CVE Ref. | Description | Vendor Severity | CVSS Base Score | Counter-measure | Publicly Aware | Weaponised | Syxsense Recommended |
| CVE-2020-0609 | Windows RDP Gateway Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical | 9.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0610 | Windows RDP Gateway Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical | 9.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0611 | Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical | 7.5 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0640 | Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability | Critical | 7.5 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0603 | ASP.NET Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical | TBC | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0605 | .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Critical | TBC | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0606 | .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Injection Vulnerability | Critical | TBC | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0646 | .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Injection Vulnerability | Critical | TBC | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0601 | Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability | Important | 8.1 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0613 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0614 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0620 | Microsoft Cryptographic Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0623 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0624 | Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0625 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0626 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0627 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0628 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0629 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0630 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0631 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0632 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0633 | Windows Search Indexer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0634 | Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0635 | Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0636 | Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0638 | Update Notification Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0641 | Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0642 | Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0644 | Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | Important | 7.8 | No | No | No | Yes |
| CVE-2020-0612 | Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Gateway Server Denial of Service Vulnerability | Important | 7.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0637 | Remote Desktop Web Access Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.7 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0607 | Microsoft Graphics Components Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0608 | Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0615 | Windows Common Log File System Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0616 | Microsoft Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0622 | Microsoft Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0639 | Windows Common Log File System Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0643 | Windows GDI+ Information Disclosure Vulnerability | Important | 5.5 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0617 | Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability | Important | 5.3 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0621 | Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability | Important | 4.4 | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0602 | ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0647 | Microsoft Office Online Spoofing Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0650 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0651 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0652 | Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0653 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0654 | Microsoft OneDrive for Android Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No | |
| CVE-2020-0656 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 (On-Premise) Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability | Important | TBC | No | No | No |
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