FAQ: Mitigating Microsoft Office’s ‘Follina’ zero-day

On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 for a zero-day remote code vulnerability, Follina, already being exploited in the wild via malicious Word documents. Q: What exactly is Follina? A: Follina is the nickname given to a new vulnerability discovered as a zero-day and identified ...

Exploit for CVE-2022-30190

CVE-2022-30190-follina Just another PoC for the new MSDT-Explo...

Microsoft Releases Workaround for ‘One-Click’ 0Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft has released a workaround for a zero-day flaw that was initially flagged in April and that attackers already have used to target organizations in Russia and Tibet, researchers said. The remote control execution RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-3019, is associated with the Microsoft Support...

Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) RCE Vulnerability (Follina)

This host is missing a workaround for a critical security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT dubbed SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

CVE-2022-30190

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. The attacker can then install programs,...

GSD-2022-30190 From the original tweet: Interesting maldoc was submitted from Belarus. It uses Word's external link to load the HTML and then uses the "ms-msdt" scheme to execute PowerShell code. From Microsoft: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. The attacker can then install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts in the context allowed by the user’s rights. This issue has been nicknamed "Follina "

From the original tweet: Interesting maldoc was submitted from Belarus. It uses Word's external link to load the HTML and then uses the "ms-msdt" scheme to execute PowerShell code. From Microsoft: A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calli...

Exploit for CVE-2022-30190

CVE-2022-30190 On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE...

CVE-2022-30190: "Follina" Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability

On May 30, 2022, Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC published a blog on CVE-2022-30190, an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool msdt in Windows. Microsoft’s advisory on CVE-2022-30190 indicates that exploitation has been detected in the wild. According to Microsof...

Microsoft Releases Workarounds for Office Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

Microsoft on Monday published guidance for a newly discovered zero-day security flaw in its Office productivity suite that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The weakness, now assigned the identifier CVE-2022-30190, is rated 7.8 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS...

Microsoft Releases Workaround Guidance for MSDT "Follina" Vulnerability

Microsoft has released workaround guidance to address a remote code execution RCE vulnerability—CVE-2022-30190, known as "Follina"—affecting the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT in Windows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected...

Microsoft Office MSDT Follina Proof Of Concept

POC CVE-2022-30190 : CVE 0-day MS Offic RCE aka msdt follina Info : New Microsoft Office zero-day used in attacks to execute PowerShell Summary On the 29th of May 2022, the NaoSec team, an independent Cyber Security Research Team, discovered a malicious Office document shared on Virustotal. This...

Microsoft Office zero-day “Follina”—it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (It’s a bug)

Update: Please see our FAQ for the latest guidance and mitigation tips on Follina. On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 regarding the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT in Windows vulnerability. The mitigation offered by Microsoft consists of an alternative method to...

Zero-Day ‘Follina’ Bug Lays Microsoft Office Open to Attack

UPDATE A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office allows adversaries to run malicious code on targeted systems via a flaw a remote Word template feature. The warning comes from Japanese security vendor Nao Sec, which tweeted a warning about the zero day over the weekend. It’s unclear if the...

Watch Out! Researchers Spot New Microsoft Office Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Office that could be abused to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected Windows systems. The vulnerability came to light after an independent cybersecurity research team known as naosec uncovered a Word document...

Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can run arbitrary code with the privileges of the calling application. The attacker can then install programs,...

PT-2022-2722

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office versions prior to the fixed version Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT affected versions not specified Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2016,...

Microsoft Windows: Turn on MSDT interactive communication with support provider

This policy setting configures Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT interactive communication with the support provider. MSDT gathers diagnostic data for analysis by support professionals. If you enable this policy setting, users can use MSDT to collect and send diagnostic data to a support...

MS05-051: Vulnerabilities in MSDTC Could Allow Remote Code Execution (902400) (uncredentialed check)

The remote version of Windows contains a version of MSDTC Microsoft Data Transaction Coordinator service that has several remote code execution, local privilege escalation, and denial of service vulnerabilities. An attacker may exploit these flaws to obtain the complete control of the remote host...