Microsoft says a vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler affects every version of the operating system.
(Photo: Biwa Studio / Getty Images) Microsoft confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability known as PrintNightmare, which can be exploited to enable remote code execution on a target device, affects every version of Windows. Sangfor Technologies researchers accidentally published a proof of concept exploit for PrintNightmare via GitHub on June 29. According to MalwareBytes, the researchers believed their exploit was addressed by a June 8 security update to Windows 10 for another vulnerability, CVE-2021-1675. The researchers deleted that repository, but it can still be found online. Microsoft said in a security bulletin that PrintNightmare, to which it assigned the identifier CVE-2021-34527, is „similar but distinct from the vulnerability that is assigned CVE-2021-1675.
