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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress

August episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 5 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and one in WordPress. We have branched off from Seclab news videos and started releasing separate episodes. Hooray! 🥳😎 If we get enough views, we will continue to release them in the future. It’s up to you, please follow the link to the video platform and click “Like” button and/or leave a comment. 🥺

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest (rus) on the official PT website

List of vulnerabilities:

🔻 00:48 Remote Code Execution – Windows Remote Desktop Licensing Service “MadLicense” (CVE-2024-38077)
🔻 02:22 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “Copy2Pwn” (CVE-2024-38213)
🔻 03:23 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (CVE-2024-38193), Windows Kernel (CVE-2024-38106), Windows Power Dependency Coordinator (CVE-2024-38107)
🔻 04:50 Unauthenticated Elevation of Privilege – WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin (CVE-2024-28000)

English voice over was generated by my open source utility subtivo (subtitles to voice over)

06:39 Check out the final jingle I generated using AI services 😉 (ToolBaz for lyrics and Suno for music)

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Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “Copy2Pwn” (CVE-2024-38213)

Security Feature Bypass - Windows Mark of the Web Copy2Pwn (CVE-2024-38213)

Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “Copy2Pwn” (CVE-2024-38213). The vulnerability was released as part of the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday (although ZDI writes that MS fixed it earlier, in June).

The vulnerability allows attackers to bypass the SmartScreen security feature, which protects users from running potentially malicious files downloaded from the Internet.

What is it about? There is a set of extensions over HTTP for collaborative work with files – WebDAV.

🔹 The WebDAV share can be accessed via a web browser::

http://10_.37.129.2/example_webdav_folder/somefile

🔹 Or you can do it via Windows Explorer (like SMB):

\\10_.37.129.2@80\example_webdav_folder

When copying from the WebDAV share via Windows Explorer, the Mark-of-the-Web label was not set. 🤷‍♂️ That’s why the name is “Copy2Pwn”. 😏

According to ZDI, the vulnerability has been exploited by the DarkGate malware operator since at least March 2024.

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May Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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May Microsoft Patch Tuesday. There are 91 vulnerabilities in total. Of those, 29 were added between April and May Patch Tuesday.

Two vulnerabilities have signs of exploitation in the wild and the presence of a functional exploit (not yet public):

🔻 Security Feature Bypass – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-30040). In fact, an attacker can execute arbitrary code when the victim opens a specially crafted document. It is exploited through phishing.
🔻 Elevation of Privilege – Windows DWM Core Library (CVE-2024-30051). A local attacker can gain SYSTEM privileges on the vulnerable host. Microsoft credits four different groups for reporting the bug, indicating that the vulnerability is being widely exploited. The vulnerability is associated with the QakBot malware.

Among the rest we can note:

🔸 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web (CVE-2024-30050). Such vulnerabilities have been frequently exploited recently. Microsoft indicates that there is a functional exploit (private) for the vulnerability.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft SharePoint Server (CVE-2024-30044). An authenticated attacker with Site Owner privileges or higher can execute arbitrary code in the context of SharePoint Server by uploading a specially crafted file.
🔸 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Search Service (CVE-2024-30033). ZDI believes that the vulnerability has the potential to be exploited in the wild.
🔸 Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Excel (CVE-2024-30042). An attacker can execute code, presumably in the user’s context, when a malicious file is opened.

🗒 Vulristics report

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2023: Outlook EoP, MOTW Bypass, Excel DoS, HTTP/3 RCE, ICMP RCE, RPC RCE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2023: Outlook EoP, MOTW Bypass, Excel DoS, HTTP/3 RCE, ICMP RCE, RPC RCE. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between February and March Patch Tuesdays.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239119

As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to analyse and prioritize vulnerabilities. I took the comments about the vulnerabilities from the Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, ZDI Patch Tuesday reviews.

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2023 was quite refreshing. 😈

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2022: Exchange ProxyNotShell RCE, JScript9, MoTW, OpenSSL, Edge, CNG, Print Spooler

Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2022: Exchange ProxyNotShell RCE, JScript9, MoTW, OpenSSL, Edge, CNG, Print Spooler. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between October and November Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to create the report.

Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239107

The most important news of this Patch Tuesday was a release of patches for ProxyNotShell Remote Code Execution – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41082) mentioned in the previous episode. These vulnerabilities became public on September 28, and updates for this vulnerability did not appear until November 8. Microsoft could have acted more quickly. But it’s good that the problem with these actively exploited vulnerabilities is finally solved.

But besides ProxyNotShell, this November Patch Tuesday had a lot of interesting vulnerabilities. Let’s take a look.

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