Microsoft is recommending its Azure users to update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a high severity remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-26701.
The IT giant is inviting the PowerShell task automation tool to versions 7.0.6 or 7.1.3 as soon as possible.
The CVE-2021-26701 flaw was addressed by Microsoft with the release of Patch Tuesday February security updates.
The .NET Core and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution vulnerability exists in .NET 5 and .NET Core due to how text encoding is performed.
