The vulnerability of high importance is found in 37 operating systems (OS) from Microsoft, including desktops and servers – it is a mistake in the components of the file system and the use it may allow hackers to break down protective mechanisms. The gap was removed, reported to Patch Technologies on the occasion of Patch on Tuesday – a monthly Windows security update.
The vulnerability is an error in the NTFS system driver – the default file system for Windows -based operating systems. NTFS is also used in modern windows and distance, so Windows 10 and 11 related it also expands to Windows Server 2025, Server 2022 and Server 2019 and other servers.
Errors may allow the attacking mechanisms to attack. It will be enough to open a virtual plate specially prepared by the attacker to have the opportunity to operate the gap and control the entire system, experts explain.
In Microsoft's July safety innovation, this vulnerability has closed this vulnerable loss. The head of the gap analysis group of Sergei Tarasov Security Center (he discovered a distance) added that virtual hard drives are often used in attacks and users “open them as ordinary archives without suspicion of threats”.