Tenable releases coverage for October 2019 Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Microsoft’s November 2019 Patch Tuesday contains updates for 74 CVEs, including 13 which are rated critical. This includes a patch for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that has been seen exploited in the wild.

This month’s release covers 16 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities and 27 elevation of privilege (EoP) flaws across a variety of products. Additionally, Microsoft has patched an increased number of vulnerabilities in Hyper-V, a number of which were denial of service (DoS) flaws. The following is a breakdown of the most important CVEs from this month’s release. Follow along as we discuss some of the more important CVE's in our blog.

As a reminder, Windows 7 support is set to be discontinued on January 14, 2020. We strongly recommend reviewing your network for hosts still running on Windows 7 and ensuring plans for migration are underway. Plugin ID 11936 (OS Identification) can be useful for identifying hosts that are still running on Windows 7.

Release Date:

12 November 2019