Here's the 15-page report just released by the ODNI about foreign threats to the 2020 election - this is the unclassified version of the larger classified report dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
"This [assessment] does not include an assessment of the impact foreign malign influence and interference activities may have had on the outcome of the 2020 election."
"We assess that it would be difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes at scale without detection by intelligence collection, ... through physical and cyber security monitoring around voting systems ..., or in post-election audits."
"We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results."
China "did not deploy interference efforts" but instead "sought stability in its relationship with the US [and] did not view either election outcome as being advantageous enough...to risk getting caught meddling"

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The vulns are CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858 and CVE-2021-27065; all of which are addressed in today’s updates for Exchange Server.
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