Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, called DWM a “frequent flyer” on Patch Tuesday, with 20 CVEs patched in this library since 2022. But, he added, this is the first time researchers have seen an information disclosure bug in this component exploited in the wild.
More priorities
Executives should also prioritize rapid patching and risk reduction efforts this month around the Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Remote Code Execution, Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege, and Windows Virtualization Based Security Enclave Elevation of Privilege flaws, Bicer said, as these vulnerabilities directly enable full system or trust boundary compromise.
Strategic focus should include accelerating patch deployment for critical and important flaws, reducing unnecessary local access, hardening authentication paths, and closely monitoring for abnormal privilege escalation behavior, Bicer said.
