Microsoft's May 2021 Patch Tuesday: 55 flaws fixed, four critical - ZDNet

Products impacted includes Internet Explorer, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Windows 10 and Office to name a few.

CVE-2021-31166 - HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

This patch corrects a bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code as kernel.

Before you pass this aside, Windows 10 can also be configured as a web server, so it is impacted as well.

There's also a Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability flagged by ZDI with a CVSS rating of 9.9.

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