On-premises Identity-related updates and fixes for December 2020

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Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates.

These are the Identity-related updates and fixes we saw for December 2020:

 

Windows Server 2016

We observed the following update for Windows Server 2016:

KB4593226 December 8, 2020

The December 8 update for Windows Server 2016 (KB4593226), updating the OS build number to 14393.4104 is a security update that includes quality improvements.

KB4593226 addresses an important Kerberos Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability, known as CVE-2020-16996, rated with CVSSv3 scores of 6.5 and 5.7. If you use Protected Users and Resource-Based Constrained Delegation (RBCD), you may experience this security vulnerability.

 

Windows Server 2019

We observed the following update for Windows Server 2019:

KB4592440 December 8, 2020

The December 8 update for Windows Server 2019 (KB4592440), updating the OS build number to 17763.1637 is a security update that includes quality improvements.

KB4592440 addresses an important Kerberos Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability, known as CVE-2020-16996, rated with CVSSv3 scores of 6.5 and 5.7. If you use Protected Users and Resource-Based Constrained Delegation (RBCD), you may experience this security vulnerability.

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