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Microsoft has confirmed a new and quite alarming Wi-Fi vulnerability in Windows, which has been rated 8.8 out of 10 in terms of severity using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The vulnerability, assigned as, does not require an attacker to have physical access to the targeted computer, although physical proximity is needed. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain remote code execution on the impacted device.
In case you need any further incentive to get patching as soon as possible, this close access vector threat “potentially bypasses network-based detections and mitigations,” according to Kikta. “It circumvents most threat modeling, so this is an immediate patch priority for me.” Most security experts agree that publicly available exploitation tools will be available before long, so the window of opportunity to patch before the attacks start is getting smaller all the time.
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