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Microsoft urges Azure users to update PowerShell to fix RCE flaw

Microsoft is urging its Azure users to update PowerShell to address a remote code execution vulnerability that was fixed earlier this year. The vulnerability is a high severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-26701. Experts believe that the exploitation of the flaw is very difficult and for this reason, Microsoft labeled it Exploitation Less Likely The vulnerability exists in.NET 5 and.NET Core due to how text encoding is performed.To best protect against this vulnerability, please install the new. PowerShell version as soon as possible to update from. Version 7.0 to 7.6.0.6 or 7.1.3″]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/119629/security/microsoft-azure-powershell-rce-flaw.html

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