Microsoft Windows updates - April 2020

Issue

On April 14, 2020, Microsoft released their monthly patches for Windows Operating Systems and applications.

The SecureAuth Product Security Team has reviewed the announced critical patches and determined that none of the announced vulnerabilities should be a high risk to the SecureAuth® Identity Platform (formerly SecureAuth IdP) as long as customers follow good security practices which include, but are not limited to:

Recommendation

It is the recommendation of SecureAuth that the patches do not need to be applied immediately and customers can wait until further testing and analysis of the potential impacts to the server are better known throughout the security and Microsoft Communities.

Summary

The April 2020 Microsoft Windows Patches identified 9 critical vulnerabilities and subsequent patches for all versions of Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer.

The 9 patches involved the following Windows components:

None of the above components are directly related to the functionality of the SecureAuth Identity Platform and typically are only exploitable when a user is tricked into opening a malicious document or visiting a malicious web site.

Due to the nature of the Identity Platform server, it should never be used to open documents, visit websites other than to download authorized support or patch files, or be used for general web surfing.

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