90 days, 16 bugs, and an Azure Sphere Challenge

Cisco Talos reports 16 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Sphere's sponsored research challenge. By Claudio Bozzato, Lilith --; and Dave McDaniel. On May 15, 2020, Microsoft kicked off the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, a three-month initiative aimed at finding bugs in Azure Sphere...

Concluding the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, Microsoft Awards $374,300 to Global Security Research Community

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge brought together 70 researchers from 21 countries to help secure Azure Sphere customers and expand Microsoft’s partnerships with the global IoT security research community. During the three-month Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, researchers...

Concluding the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, Microsoft Awards $374,300 to Global Security Research Community

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge brought together 70 researchers from 21 countries to help secure Azure Sphere customers and expand Microsoft’s partnerships with the global IoT security research community. During the three-month Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, researchers...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Pluton SIGN_WITH_TENANT_ATTESTATION_KEY memory corruption vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1139 Microsoft Azure Sphere Pluton SIGNWITHTENANTATTESTATIONKEY memory corruption vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Pluton SIGNWITHTENANTATTESTATIONKEY functionality of Microsoft Azure...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs Quota denial of service vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1129 Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs Quota denial of service vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number CVE-2020-16986 SUMMARY A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Littlefs Quota functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted s...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKET_MMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1134 Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKETMMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs truncate information disclosure vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1130 Microsoft Azure Sphere Littlefs truncate information disclosure vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Littlefs filesystem functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially...

CVE-2020-25788: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

An issue was discovered in Tiny Tiny RSS aka tt-rss before 2020-09-16. imgproxy in plugins/afproxyhttp/init.php mishandles $REQUEST"url" in an error message...

CVE-2020-16247

Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform, Versions 12.2.1 and prior, exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource...

CVE-2020-16247: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Philips Clinical Collaboration Platform, Versions 12.2.1 and prior, exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource...

CVE-2020-16212

In Patient Information Center iX PICiX Versions B.02, C.02, C.03, the product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource. The application on the surveillance station operates in kiosk mode, which is vulnerable to local...

CVE-2020-4578

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM...

CVE-2018-12475

The CVE-2018-12475 entry concerns an Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere in openSUSE Open Build Service’s obs-service-download_files component. The vulnerability allows authenticated users to generate HTTP requests targeting internal networks, potentially leading to da...

Rethinking IoT/OT Security to Mitigate Cyberthreats

We live in an exciting time. We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution—first steam, followed by electricity, then computers, and, now, the Internet of Things. A few years ago, IoT seemed like a futuristic concept that was on the distant horizon. The idea that your fridge would be...

Four More Bugs Patched in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere IoT Platform

Details tied to a pair of remote code execution bugs in Microsoft’s IoT security platform called Azure Sphere were released Monday. Also made public were specifics associated with two additional privilege escalation flaws impacting the same cloud security platform. Public disclosure of all four o...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality unsigned code execution vulnerability

Summary A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted shellcode can cause a process’ heap to become executable. An attacker can execute a shellcode that sets the READIMPLIESEXEC personality to...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Capability access control privilege escalation vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1133 Microsoft Azure Sphere Capability access control privilege escalation vulnerability August 24, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Capability access control functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A set ...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application /proc/thread-self/mem unsigned code execution vulnerability

Summary A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.07. A specially crafted shellcode can cause a process’ non-writable memory to be written. An attacker can execute a shellcode that modifies the program at runtime v...

Microsoft Azure Sphere uid_map UID uniqueness privilege escalation vulnerability

Summary A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the uidmap functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted uidmap file can cause multiple applications to get the same UID assigned, thus broadening the attack surface. An attacker can modify the uidmap file to trigger this...

Threat Source newsletter for Aug. 6, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We spend a lot of time talking about what you should do to keep your data safe, and how other organizations should be prepared for the worst. But what happens if the worst happens to you? In the latest Beers with Talos episode, we...