October 2024 [Experts Analyze a Long List of Spooky Vulnerabilities]

CVE-2024-38124 is a Windows Netlogon elevation-of-privilege flaw that lets an authenticated attacker with LAN access impersonate a domain controller. To exploit it, an attacker predicts the new domain controller's name, renames their machine to match, establishes a secure channel, and stands up a rogue domain controller. Avoid predictable naming conventions and use secure channel validation.

CVE-2024-43468 is an unauthenticated remote code execution bug in Microsoft Configuration Manager, triggered by a specially crafted packet that points to memory-safety issues. Three product versions are affected and the only workaround is updating. Microsoft recommends running it under an alternate service account instead of the computer account.

CVE-2024-43533 is a Remote Desktop Client RCE that targets the client rather than the server, opening the door to back-hacks where a rogue RDP server turns the tables on nation-states and scanning firms probing for open RDP sessions.

The CUPS vulnerability hits Linux hosts running the Common UNIX Printing System exposed to the internet, often shipped on by default in golden images; a single UDP packet claiming to be a printer can give an attacker an ingress point that worms across every other CUPS host in the VPC.

macOS Sequoia 15.0 broke several security tools with no advance notice from Apple. Updating to 15.0.1 may restore functionality. Because Apple offers no easy rollback, the team recommends delaying major OS updates and leaning on logging to catch what silently breaks.