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The Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical

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The Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical

The Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) has become more critical. Just as I wrote that nothing had been heard about this vulnerability for a month since it was first published in Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday, a public exploit for it appeared on January 15th. 🙂 It was developed by Alessandro Iandoli from HN Security. The source code and video demonstrating the exploit are available on GitHub: a local attacker runs an exe file in PowerShell and, after a second, becomes “nt authority/system”. The researcher tested the exploit on Windows 11 23h2. He also promises to publish a blog post with a detailed analysis of the vulnerability.

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What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later?

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What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege - Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later?

What has become known about the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138) vulnerability from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday a month later? Almost nothing. 🙄 This is a vulnerability in a standard Windows component, available in all versions starting with Windows Server 2003 R2. Its description is typical for EoP in Windows: if successfully exploited, a local attacker can gain SYSTEM privileges. The cause of the vulnerability is Heap-based Buffer Overflow.

Microsoft has labeled the vulnerability as being exploited in the wild, but has not provided information on where the vulnerability was being exploited or how widespread the attacks were.

The vulnerability was reported by CrowdStrike’s Advanced Research Team. But neither they nor other researchers have provided technical details yet. 🤷‍♂️ And there are no exploits yet either.

So install the December Microsoft security updates and let’s wait for news! 😉

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January Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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January Microsoft Patch Tuesday

January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 170 CVEs, 10 of them were added since December MSPT. 3 exploited in the wild:

🔻 EoP – Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP (CVE-2025-21333, CVE-2025-21334, CVE-2025-21335). No details yet.

No vulnerabilities have public exploits. 5 have private ones:

🔸 Security Feature Bypass – Microsoft Update Catalog (CVE-2024-49147), MapUrlToZone (CVE-2025-21268, CVE-2025-21189)
🔸 EoP – Windows Installer (CVE-2025-21287)
🔸 Auth. Bypass – Azure (CVE-2025-21380)

Notable among the rest:

🔹 RCE – Windows OLE (CVE-2025-21298), Windows RMCAST (CVE-2025-21307), Microsoft Office (CVE-2025-21365), Windows Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2025-21297, CVE-2025-21309), NEGOEX (CVE-2025-21295)
🔹 EoP – Windows NTLM V1 (CVE-2025-21311), Windows Search Service (CVE-2025-21292), Windows App Package Installer (CVE-2025-21275)
🔹 Spoofing – Windows Themes (CVE-2025-21308)

🗒 Full Vulristics report

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About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability

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About Elevation of Privilege - Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver (CVE-2024-38144) vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday. It wasn’t highlighted in reviews; all we knew was that a local attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges.

Three and a half months later, on November 27, SSD Secure Disclosure released a write-up with exploit code. This vulnerability was exploited at TyphoonPWN 2024, earning the researcher a $70,000 prize.

SSD stated in their write-up that communications with Microsoft were problematic and noted that “at the time of trying this on the latest version of Windows 11, the vulnerability still worked”. It’s unclear if this “time of trying” was before the August MSPT or just before the write-up was released in November. If the second option, the vulnerability might still be a 0day. 🤔🤷‍♂️

No reports of this vulnerability being exploited in attacks yet.

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About Remote Code Execution – Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112)

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About Remote Code Execution - Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112)

About Remote Code Execution – Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (CVE-2024-49112). The vulnerability is from the December Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Three weeks later, on January 1, researchers from SafeBreach released a write-up on this vulnerability, labeled as LDAPNightmare, and an exploit PoC.

The exploit causes a forced reboot of Windows servers. One prerequisite: the victim domain controller’s DNS server must have Internet connectivity.

The attack flow starts with sending a DCE/RPC request to the victim server, causing the LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) to crash and force a reboot when an attacker sends a specially crafted CLDAP (Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) referral response packet.

But this is all about DoS, why RCE? 🤔 Researchers note that RCE can be achieved by modifying the CLDAP packet.

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#10): 8 trending vulnerabilities of November, zero budget VM and who should look for patches. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:29 Spoofing – Windows NTLM (CVE-2024-43451)
🔻 01:16 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Task Scheduler (CVE-2024-49039)
🔻 02:16 Spoofing – Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2024-49040)
🔻 03:03 Elevation of Privilege – needrestart (CVE-2024-48990)
🔻 04:11 Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575)
🔻 05:19 Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012)
🔻 06:32 Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474)
🔻 07:42 Path Traversal – Zyxel firewall (CVE-2024-11667)
🔻 08:37 Is it possible to Manage Vulnerabilities with no budget?
🔻 09:53 Should a VM specialist specify a patch to install on the host in a Vulnerability Remediation task?
🔻 10:51 Full digest of trending vulnerabilities
🔻 11:18 Backstage

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December Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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December Microsoft Patch Tuesday

December Microsoft Patch Tuesday. 89 CVEs, of which 18 were added since November MSPT. 1 vulnerability with signs of exploitation in the wild:

🔻 EoP – Windows Common Log File System Driver (CVE-2024-49138). There are no details about this vulnerability yet.

Strictly speaking, there was another vulnerability that was exploited in the wild: EoP – Microsoft Partner Network (CVE-2024-49035). But this is an already fixed vulnerability in the Microsoft website and I’m not even sure that it was worth creating a CVE. 🤔

For the remaining vulnerabilities, there are no signs of exploitation in the wild, nor exploits (even private ones).

I can highlight:

🔹 RCE – Windows LDAP (CVE-2024-49112, CVE-2024-49127)
🔹 RCE – Windows LSASS (CVE-2024-49126)
🔹 RCE – Windows Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2024-49106 и ещё 8 CVE)
🔹 RCE – Microsoft MSMQ (CVE-2024-49122, CVE-2024-49118)
🔹 RCE – Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2024-49070)

🗒 Full Vulristics report

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