The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Microsoft vulnerability dating back to 2018 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue after evidence emerged that it is being used in an attack chain by the China-backed APT41 advanced persistent threat group.
CVE-2018-0824 was first addressed by Microsoft in the May 2018 Patch Tuesday update. It is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Microsoft COM for Windows resulting from a failure to properly handle serialised objects.
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Source: Computer Weekly
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