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MS says it’s not a problem, but obviously it is. And there are other reasons, none of them speaking well of the people that made and keep MS large and successful.īut Microsoft closed the ticket! MSRC has form, says jeff_w87: Hence the current mess, which will not go away. … That that ship has sailed long ago for the products MS makes. That is not hyperbole, that is how engineering works: At some level of complexity you lose control and you cannot get it back anymore. How does Microsoft get so incompetent as to ignore the problem for 22 months and then close the ticket when the inevitable exploits happen? gweihir tries not to be hyperbolic:Īt the current complexity they have reached and failed to keep under control, it is probably impossible to fix it.
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We also patched Windows 7, where the ms-msdt: URL handler is not registered at all. If one is detected, we make sure the RunScript call is bypassed while the Diagnostic Tool keeps running.
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When possible, we want to minimize our impact outside of removing the vulnerability, so we decided to place our patch in sdiagnhost.exe before the RunScript call and check if the user-provided path contains a “$(” sequence - which is necessary for injecting a PowerShell subexpression. But Mitja Kolsek’s got your back-“ Free Micropatches”: “reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ms-msdt /f”Īnd there’s still no patch? Not officially. … So all we can ever do is hope for the best do a: … This might represent another sample of the pattern that seems to be emerging, where Microsoft increasingly seems to be needing the external security research community to solve all of its problems for it.Īpparently saying, “Hey, allowing Word’s remote template feature to retrieve an HTML file from a remote server, which execute some PowerShell,” … is no longer sufficient to get Microsoft’s attention. On April 21st, Microsoft’s MSRC blew it off and closed the ticket, saying that it was not a security-related issue.
… Either way, last month on April 12th … Shadowchasing1, an hunting group, reported the active exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild to Microsoft. The reference in it was obscure, it was on page 29, and we’ll never know whether someone saw it and recognized its significance, as he did, or may have independently invented an attack. … The program compatibility wizard fits this description: … All user input can also be prefilled from the command line.”īenjamin’s bachelor’s thesis was nearly two years ago. The attacker now needs to find an included wizard that allows the execution of arbitrary programs. … This protocol directly passes the string it is given to the msdt.exe program. And one that’s been known about for 22 months, as Steve Gibson explains:Ī bachelor’s thesis authored by … Benjamin Altpeter on August 1st, 2020 “Windows includes the ms-msdt:// protocol that opens the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool which provides the troubleshooting wizard. So it’s a bug in Office? No, it’s a bug in Windows. suspect this campaign to be by a state aligned actor, based on both the extensive recon of the Powershell and tight concentration of targeting.
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… The downloaded Powershell script was base64 encoded and used Invoke-Expression to download an additional PS script … from seller-notification.live. This campaign masqueraded as a salary increase and utilized an RTF … with the exploit payload downloaded from 45.76.53.253. Phishing campaign targeting … European gov & local US gov. and European government sites are also under attack. … With all this real-world exploitation, the question is whether the guidance Microsoft has published so far is adequate. Researchers have … seen malicious documents exploiting Follina with targets in Russia, India, the Philippines, Belarus … Nepal Tibet. … Incident responders say that more action is needed, given how easy it is to exploit the vulnerability. While attackers have primarily been observed exploiting the flaw through malicious documents thus far, other methods. can be easily exploited by a specially crafted Word document. The company continues to downplay the severity of the Follina vulnerability … in all supported versions of Windows. What’s the latest? Lily Hay Newman reports-“ Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw Still Has No Patch”: Not to mention: How to fix it with regedit. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
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