Windows security exploit alert

  • Tuesday, 3rd December, 2019
  • 17:32pm

We would like to inform you about an important security issue affecting Windows servers.
This issue called the juicy potato exploit can compromise customer data in Plesk running on a server with the following Windows operating systems:

Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016.

Since it's a Windows security issue we are not able to issue a fix, however we place great value on our clients and partners being safe and secure and there is a method which will make your server safe against this exploit, you will need to disable dcom support in Windows, the following link explains how to do this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/825750/how-to-disable-dcom-support-in-windows

If you have any further questions about this or any other issue please do not hesitate to contact us.

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