May “In the Trend of VM” (#15): vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and the Erlang/OTP framework. A traditional monthly vulnerability roundup. 
Post on Habr (rus)
Digest on the PT website (rus)
A total of 4 trending vulnerabilities:
Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2025-29824) Elevation of Privilege – Windows Process Activation (CVE-2025-21204) Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2025-24054) Remote Code Execution – Erlang/OTP (CVE-2025-32433)
About Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2025-24054) vulnerability. It was patched in the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. VM vendors didn’t mention this vulnerability in their reviews; it was only known to be exploited via user interaction with a malicious file.
A month later, on April 16, Check Point published a blog post with technical details, revealing that the vulnerability is exploited using specially crafted files…
Wait a minute — there was a trending vulnerability in March MSPT: CVE-2025-24071, related to the same files. 
Turns out, it’s THE SAME vulnerability. 
Check Point reports: “Microsoft had initially assigned the vulnerability the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24071, but it has since been updated to CVE-2025-24054“. What a mess. 
Technical details in the previous post.
Since March 19, Check Point has tracked about 11 campaigns exploiting this vulnerability to collect NTLMv2-SSP hashes.
New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 
Video on YouTube, LinkedIn Post on Habr (rus) Digest on the PT website
Content:
00:29 Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2024-43451) 01:16 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039) 02:16 Spoofing – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-49040) 03:03 Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990) 04:11 Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) 05:19 Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) 06:32 Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) 07:42 Path Traversal – Zyxel firewall (CVE-2024-11667) 08:37 Is it possible to Manage Vulnerabilities with no budget? 09:53 Should a VM specialist specify a patch to install on the host in a Vulnerability Remediation task? 10:51 Full digest of trending vulnerabilities 11:18 Backstage
About Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2024-43451) vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the November Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It immediately showed signs of being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is related to the outdated MSHTML platform, which is still used in Windows. To exploit the vulnerability, the user must minimally interact with the malicious URL file: right-click on it, delete it, or move it to another folder. There is no need to open the malicious file. As a result, the attacker receives the user’s NTLMv2 hash, which he can use for authentication.
According to ClearSky, the vulnerability is used to distribute Spark RAT, an open-source remote access Trojan.
September 2023: VM courses, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian Podcasts, Goodbye Tinkoff, MS Patch Tuesday, Qualys TOP 20, Linux, Forrester, GigaOm, R-Vision VM. Hello everyone! On the last day of September, I decided to record another retrospective episode on how my Vulnerability Management month went.
Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239136
September was quite a busy month for me.
Continue readingMicrosoft Patch Tuesday March 2023: Outlook EoP, MOTW Bypass, Excel DoS, HTTP/3 RCE, ICMP RCE, RPC RCE. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between February and March Patch Tuesdays.
Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239119
As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. I took the comments about the vulnerabilities from the Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, ZDI Patch Tuesday reviews.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023 was quite refreshing. 
Microsoft Patch Tuesday January 2023: ALPC EoP, Win Backup EoP, LocalPotato, Exchange, Remote RCEs. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between December and January Patch Tuesdays.
Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239115
As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. I took the comments about the vulnerabilities from the Qualys, Nessus, Rapid7 and ZDI Patch Tuesday reviews.
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