Google outs 'severe' Microsoft Edge vulnerability

[GEWB]

From The Inquirer:

"GOOGLE PROJECT ZERO RESEARCHER Ivan Fratric has had enough of Microsoft not fixing a severe vulnerability in Microsoft Edge and blown a big whistle on it.

This is what Project Zero does. Fratric took the issue to Microsoft last year, and the firm failed to fix it within Google's deadline so the company has, naturally, made the vulnerability public.


The bug was reported to Microsoft in November with a three-month deadline. Four days ago, this 90-day deadline expired and the information was released into the wild."

Read the story at:

Google outs 'severe' Microsoft Edge vulnerability after firm misses 90-day fix deadline | TheINQUIRER

 

[Anak]

Here's the ars technica article mentioned in GEWB's link, I like the end of the second paragraph and all of the third. It makes it sound like MS is back to pushing 10 again:

There's a zero-day exploit in the wild that exploits a key file-sharing protocol in most supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10, the latest and most secure version of the Microsoft operating system. The exploit is probably not worth worrying about, but you'd never know that based on the statement Microsoft officials issued on Thursday when asked what kind of threat the exploit poses:

"Windows is the only platform with a customer commitment to investigate reported security issues and proactively update impacted devices as soon as possible," an unnamed spokesperson replied in an e-mail. "We recommend customers use Windows 10 and the Microsoft Edge browser for the best protection."

An employee at Microsoft's outside PR firm, WE Communications, wouldn't explain why the statement advised customers to use Windows 10 and Edge when the exploit works on all versions of Windows and doesn't require that targets use a browser. Ars reminded the employee that an advisory issued hours earlier by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University warned that the vulnerability might leave Windows users open to code-execution attacks.


Source: https://Op-ed: Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers
Customers want objective threat guidance, not cheap shots at Microsoft rivals | arstechnica.com