> Microsoft November Patch Tuesday: one exploited Outlook bug and 30 wormable flaws

Microsoft November Patch Tuesday security updates fix 1,090 flaws, including one exploited Outlook bug and 30 potentially wormable issues. Microsoft November Patch Tuesday addressed about 1,090 new vulnerabilities, which is less than the roughly 1,400 last month. Two months in a row now exceed every previous year from Microsoft, and the overall count is a bit confusing, so other trackers report different totals. The release covers Windows and its components, Office, networking and remote access, graphics, media and printing, storage and file systems, .NET and Visual Studio, security and identity, Azure and cloud, Exchange Server, Dynamics and Xbox. Only one bug is under active attack and none is publicly known. ZDI says that doesn’t mean less exploitation, only fewer zero-days, and it guesses that AI is better at reversing patches than at finding and exploiting bugs in closed-source software. The exploited bug is CVE-2026-124194, an Outlook spoofing flaw, and its name undersells the impact. An attacker sends a crafted message file and talks the user into opening it, and Outlook connects to an attacker-controlled location without the usual external-content warning, which leaks the user’s NTLMv2 hash. “An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted message file and convince a user to open it in an affected version of Microsoft Outlook. Opening the file could cause Outlook to connect to an attacker-controlled network location without displaying the usual external-content warning, potentially disclosing authentication information that could be used to impersonate the user. Exploitation requires network connectivity and user interaction.” reads the advisory. “An attacker must send a user a malicious Office file and convince them to open it.” The attacker can then authenticate as that user. The Preview Pane isn’t an attack path and the CVSS score is only 6.5, but ZDI says to put it first because Microsoft marks it as exploited. CVE-2026-116928 is a Windows Search remote code execution bug reached through Exchange Server. An unauthenticated attacker emails a crafted attachment, and the bug triggers when the server indexes it automatically, so the recipient never opens anything. It’s zero-click, scores CVSS 9.8, and ZDI rates it more severe than any of the nine patches Exchange gets this month. CVE-2026-119958 hits the Windows LDAP service. An unauthenticated attacker sends crafted LDAP calls over the network, triggers an out-of-bounds write and runs code in the service context, which could be destructive on domain controllers. ZDI says to test and deploy it quickly. CVE-2026-119952, a Schannel remote code execution flaw, is marked “Exploitation More Likely”, one of only a few Critical patches with that rating, and its high attack complexity is why the score is lower. CVE-2026-119990, an Azure OpenAI elevation of privilege bug, got a bulletin that said “Customer Action Required: Yes” and then listed nothing to do. An unauthenticated attacker could send a crafted request over the internet and reach orchestration information, change workflows or disrupt the service. Microsoft has since revised it to say no customer action is needed. A bulletin that says action required and lists none is the most relaxed urgent notice you’ll read this month. Two more stand out for their components. CVE-2026-95962 is a use-after-free in the little-documented Windows Virtual Filtering Platform, reachable with a crafted network packet and needing no authentication or user interaction. It involves a race condition, but ZDI notes those get beaten all the time at Pwn2Own. CVE-2026-112967 is a heap overflow in the Xbox Live Networking Service with a CVSS of 9.8, and ZDI doesn’t think exploitation is likely but enjoys imagining Xbox Live exploits in the wild. ZDI counts 30 wormable bugs this month, down from 59 last month. Seventeen carry advisory wording about an unauthenticated attacker running code over the network with no interaction, and 13 use variant wording or have no FAQ but show the same pattern in their summaries and CVSS vectors. ZDI warns it may be wrong on some, since a few advisories are light on detail. ComponentCVEsMessage Queuing (5)CVE-2026-116710, 119963, 119964, 109459, 119967DNS (4)CVE-2026-81384, 96092, 96177, 88218Color Management (2)CVE-2026-96067, 96078DHCP Server (2)CVE-2026-88243, 72998DirectMusic (2)CVE-2026-95882, 95901Xbox (2)CVE-2026-112967, 66801One each (13)Exchange Server (116928), LDAP (119958), Schannel (119952), CredSSP (119962), Deployment Services (119951), IIS (119961), NAT (113862), RPC Runtime (118737), Media Foundation (96157), iSCSI (88234), Virtual Filtering Platform (95962), eSCL Scanner (95956), Modern Device Management (119945) Network-facing services like DNS, DHCP, LDAP and Exchange deserve the earliest attention. “I may be wrong about some of these, since a few advisories are light on detail.” concludes ZDI. “As always, I recommend testing and deploying these patches quickly, especially for network-facing services like DNS, DHCP, LDAP, and Exchange” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, Patch Tuesday)