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First impressions of the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday

First impressions of the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday
First impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday

First impressions of the April Microsoft Patch Tuesday. I don’t even know what to write. 🤪 Very strange! 173 vulnerabilities, of which 23 were added since the last Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft flags one vulnerability as being exploited in the wild: Spoofing – Proxy Driver (CVE-2024-26234). And only Qualys briefly mentions it. Literally like this: “Microsoft has not disclosed any information about the vulnerability”. 😅 ZDI also claims that Security Feature Bypass – SmartScreen Prompt (CVE-2024-29988) is being exploited in the wild, which is a Mark of the Web (MotW) bypass.

There are no exploits for anything yet. The following vulnerabilities can be highlighted:

🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Excel (CVE-2024-26257). Can be exploited by an attacker when the victim opens a specially crafted file.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – RPC (CVE-2024-20678). It is highlighted by ZDI, which also claims 1.3 million exposed TCP 135 ports.
🔸 Spoofing – Outlook for Windows (CVE-2024-20670). ZDI writes that this is an Information Disclosure vulnerability that can be used in NTLM relay attacks.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Windows DNS Server (CVE-2024-26221, CVE-2024-26222, CVE-2024-26223, CVE-2024-26224, CVE-2024-26227, CVE-2024-26231, CVE-2024-26233). Maybe some of this will be exploited in the wild, ZDI particularly highlights CVE-2024-26221.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Defender for IoT (CVE-2024-21322, CVE-2024-21323, CVE-2024-29053). It is an IoT and ICS/OT security solution that can be deployed on-prem.

There are simply indecently massive fixes:

🔹 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server / Microsoft WDAC OLE DB Provider for SQL Server / Microsoft WDAC SQL Server ODBC Driver. 28 CVEs! I won’t even list everything here. 😨
🔹 Security Feature Bypass – Secure Boot. 23 CVEs!

🗒 Vulristics report

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Upd. 10.04 I slightly tweaked the vulnerability type detection to increase the priority of the detection based on the Microsoft generated description compared to the detection based on CWE. In particular, the type of vulnerability for Spoofing – Proxy Driver (CVE-2024-26234) and Spoofing – Outlook for Windows (CVE-2024-20670) has changed.

The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)

The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian)

The digest of March trending vulnerabilities was published on the Positive Technologies website (in Russian). I also generated a Vulristics report for these vulnerabilities. There are 5 vulnerabilities in total.

🔻 For 3 vulnerabilities there are exploits and confirmed signs of exploitation in the wild: AuthBypassTeamCity (CVE-2024-27198), RCE – FortiClientEMS (CVE-2023-48788), EoPWindows Kernel (CVE-2024-21338).

🔻 For 2 more vulnerabilities there are no signs of exploitation in the wild yet, but there are exploits: EoP – Windows CLFS Driver (CVE-2023-36424), RCEMicrosoft Outlook (CVE-2024-21378).

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First impressions of the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday

First impressions of the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday
First impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch TuesdayFirst impressions of the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday

First impressions of the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. So far I have not seen anything overtly critical. There are 80 vulnerabilities in total, including 20 added between the February and March MSPT.

With PoC there is only one:

🔻 Information Disclosure – runc (CVE-2024-21626). It allows an attacker to escape from the container. What does Microsoft have to do with it? The vulnerability has been fixed in Azure Kubernetes Service and CBL-Mariner (Microsoft’s internal Linux distribution).

For the rest, there are no signs of active exploitation or the existence of a PoC yet.

We can pay attention to the following:

🔸 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-21443, CVE-2024-26173, CVE-2024-26176, CVE-2024-26178, CVE-2024-26182). Such vulnerabilities often become exploitable recently. The same applies to Elevation of Privilege – Windows Print Spooler (CVE-2024-21433).
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) (CVE-2024-21334). CVSS 9.8 and ZDI write that “it would allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute code on OMI instances on the Internet”. Perhaps such instances are indeed often accessible via the Internet, this requires research. 🤷‍♂️
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Windows Hyper-V (CVE-2024-21407). This “guest-to-host escape” vulnerability was highlighted by everyone: Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, ZDI.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-26198). This is a “DLL loading” vulnerability. The details are still unclear, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be a detailed write-up on it soon.

🗒 Vulristics report

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I reach a wider audience: I talk about trending vulnerabilities in the SecLab News show

I reach a wider audience: I talk about trending vulnerabilities in the SecLab News show. 🤩 It’s in Russian, but the automatically generated subtitles combined with automatic translation do a good job. The “Trending VM” section starts at 16:05. 🎞

As for the content, this is the February digest of trending vulnerabilities, but presented in a more lively format: simple phrases, with all sorts of memes, jokes and so on. Typical edutainment. 😏 The level of production demonstrated by the SecLab News team is, of course, amazing. I haven’t seen anything better yet. Very professional guys, it’s a pleasure to work with them. 🔥

In general, this is a trial attempt – the further fate of the section (and maybe not only the section) depends on you 😉.

➡️ Please follow the link, watch the episode, like it, leave a comment about the section. What you liked and what could have been done better.

We are really looking forward to your feedback. 🫠

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February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW

February 2024: Vulremi, Vuldetta, PT VM Course relaunch, PT TrendVulns digests, Ivanti, Fortinet, MSPT, Linux PW. Hello everyone! In this episode, I will talk about the February updates of my open source projects, also about projects at my main job at Positive Technologies and interesting vulnerabilities.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239140

Let’s start with my open source projects.

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November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review

November 2023 – January 2024: New Vulristics Features, 3 Months of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays and Linux Patch Wednesdays, Year 2023 in Review. Hello everyone! It has been 3 months since the last episode. I spent most of this time improving my Vulristics project. So in this episode, let’s take a look at what’s been done.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239139

Also, let’s take a look at the Microsoft Patch Tuesdays vulnerabilities, Linux Patch Wednesdays vulnerabilities and some other interesting vulnerabilities that have been released or updated in the last 3 months. Finally, I’d like to end this episode with a reflection on how my 2023 went and what I’d like to do in 2024.

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October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture

October 2023: back to Positive Technologies, Vulristics updates, Linux Patch Wednesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday, PhysTech VM lecture. Hello everyone! October was an interesting and busy month for me. I started a new job, worked on my open source Vulristics project, and analyzed vulnerabilities using it. Especially Linux vulnerabilities as part of my new Linux Patch Wednesday project. And, of course, analyzed Microsoft Patch Tuesday as well. In addition, at the end of October I was a guest lecturer at MIPT/PhysTech university. But first thing first.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239138

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