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The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-24955, and carries a severity score of 7.2.

Such a vulnerability could be used for a number of things, frommalwaredeployment, to information stealing.

Zero-day attack

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Those who have automatic updates enabled are most likely already protected, though.

Two months ago, CISA added a separate flaw, CVE-2023-29357, to KEV.

This flaw was chained together with the newly-added RCE last year, at the Pwn2Own Vancouver hacking contest.

Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies have until April 16 this year to apply the patch.

Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform, available through the Microsoft 365 productivity suite.

It was first launched in 2001 as a document management and storage system.

It was also used to share information via intranet.

ViaTheHackerNews

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