Among all the operating systems that we have the option of installing today, Windows 10 is the most used. This makes it have its positive points, but also negative ones. On the one hand, it is the version of Microsoft that has more functionality, more compatible tools and also more efforts in everything related to security. However, the fact of being the most used operating system opens the door for cybercriminals to try to deploy their threats here and that is why we will see some of these most serious vulnerabilities in Windows 10 that have been seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25b8Internet Explorer vulnerabilities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case we are facing the vulnerabilities CVE-2018-8174 and CVE-2016-0189. They affect Internet Explorer, which although it is not a very popular browser today, is present in most Windows 10 systems. The first could affect any Microsoft system. However, the company released patches in 2018 to fix it on all supported operating systems. This flaw, also known as Double Kill, would allow an attacker to enter the virtual memory of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second similarly affects and exploits a bug in a VBScript.dll file that is out of date in Windows. This time it requires downloading a corrupt file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Adobe Flash vulnerability CVE-2018-4878<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adobe Flash has had many vulnerabilities in recent years. It is undoubtedly one of the tools that has needed the most patches and that has affected Windows 10 users the most. One of them was the vulnerability named CVE-2018-4878. We are facing a problem that would allow an attacker to execute code arbitrarily. In this way, it could execute all kinds of commands on our system and compromise security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Windows Administrator CVE-2015-1769<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This vulnerability also significantly affected Windows 10 users. It affected the file manager and allowed an attacker to exploit it simply by inserting a USB memory into the computer. In this way, it could achieve an escalation of privileges and deploy malicious code that put the security of the system at risk. The good news is that this vulnerability was patched at the time by Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also check: Among all the operating systems that we have the option of installing today, Windows 10 is the most used. This makes it have its positive points, but also negative ones. On the one hand, it is the version of Microsoft that has more functionality, more compatible tools and also more efforts in everything related to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[36,197,204],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-windows","tag-cybersecurity","tag-vulnerabilities","tag-windows-10"],"yoast_head":"\n
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