CIT Security Services Notification

Updated July 9th 2021

The CIT Security team is sending an alert in regards to a new privilege Escalation “zero-day” vulnerability labeled as PrintNightmare in all Windows Server systems.

At this time there is not a patch available for this vulnerability however, it is possible to disable the print spooler service that is affected by this vulnerability until a patch can be made available from Microsoft. Once the official patch is released from Microsoft it will be approved for installation for CIT managed customers. Managed customers who wish to have the print spooler service-disabled may also make this request to the CIT Services Team

July 9th update:

As a follow-up to our previous security alert regarding the Microsoft privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability labeled as PrintNightmare, Microsoft released an emergency patch which CIT has released effective immediately. All customers that receive CIT patching will receive this patch cycle. If you have any issues or concerns, please reach out to the CIT Support desk at support@cit-net.com or 651.255.5799