Hey everyone! I'm curious if anyone has come across C++ vulnerabilities showing up on Windows Defender or Azure Defender for Cloud this week? Would love to hear your experiences and maybe some solutions!
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Yes, I've seen those vulnerabilities pop up too! I spent about an hour yesterday updating the outdated versions and cleaning up anything that was still old and vulnerable.
I've dealt with this issue before, not just with Defender but also using Qualys. I found that sometimes it leaves behind residues in the registry. If you send a command like this for each old version, it might help:
"C:ProgramDataPackage Cache{6c6356fe-cbfa-4944-9bed-a9e99f45cb7a}VC redist.x64.exe" /uninstall /quiet /norestart
It's worked for me before, but I did have a funny situation where a user complained their VC kept uninstalling itself because they were using an old installer they had saved. Just a heads up!
Awesome, good to know! I’ll definitely check this out, thanks!