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title: "Security digest: May 8, 2018"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2018-05-08/
description: "May 8, 2018 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (Windows COM CVE-2018-0824: APT41 Reuses a 2018…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2018-05-08
date_modified: 2026-10-23
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: May 8, 2018

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: Windows COM CVE-2018-0824: APT41 Reuses a 2018 Exploit . Anyone still running Windows 7, 8.1, Windows 10 1803 or earlier, or Windows Server 2008 through 2016 hosts that have not taken updates since May 2018, especially research and government networks.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [Windows COM CVE-2018-0824: APT41 Reuses a 2018 Exploit](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/windows-com-cve-2018-0824-apt41-unmarshalpwn/index.md): Fixed in May 2018 and absent from current Windows releases; the only real exposure is legacy hosts that have missed updates since 2018, which should be found and replaced or isolated.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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