Vulnerability Spotlight: Microsoft issues security update for Azure Sphere

Claudio Bozzato, Lilith and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered seven vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere, a cloud-connected SoC platform designed specifically with IoT application security in mind...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application /proc/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 20.05. 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 mtd character device driver privilege escalation vulnerability

Summary An arbitrary flash write vulnerability exists in the mtd character device driver of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted ioctl can bypass file permissions and allow writes to flash by unauthorized users. An attacker can issue a MEMWRITE ioctl to trigger this vulnerability...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application ptrace unsigned code execution vulnerability

Summary A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.05. A specially crafted shellcode can cause a process’ non-writable memory to be written. An attacker can execute a shellcode that uses the ptrace system call to...

Microsoft Azure Sphere AF_AZSPIO socket memory corruption vulnerability

Summary A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the AFAZSPIO socket functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.05. A sequence of socket operations can cause a double-free and out-of-bounds read in the kernel. An attacker can write a shellcode to trigger this vulnerability. Tested Versions...

Microsoft Azure Sphere ASXipFS inode type privilege escalation vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1131 Microsoft Azure Sphere ASXipFS inode type privilege escalation vulnerability July 31, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the ASXipFS inode type functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted...

Microsoft Azure Sphere kernel message ring buffer Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Summary An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the kernel message ring buffer functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.05. Unprivileged users can access the kernel message ring buffer, which can potentially leak sensitive information, such as kernel or userland memory addresses. An...

Microsoft Azure Sphere asynchronous ioctl denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the asynchronous ioctl functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.05. A sequence of specially crafted ioctl calls can cause a denial of service. An attacker can write a shellcode to trigger this vulnerability. Tested Versions Microsoft Azure...

CVE-2020-13651: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

An issue was discovered in DigDash 2018R2 before p20200528, 2019R1 before p20200421, and 2019R2 before p20200430. It allows a user to provide data that will be used to generate the JNLP file used by a client to obtain the right Java application. By providing an attacker-controlled URL, the client...

Cybersecurity best practices to implement highly secured devices

Almost three years ago, we published The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices, which introduced a new standard for IoT security and argued, based on an analysis of best-in-class devices, that seven properties must be present on every standalone device that connects to the internet in order ...

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Authorization Issues Vulnerability

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is a U.S. IBM company built on the Open Liberty project on top of the Java application server . An authorization issue vulnerability exists in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 19.0.0.5 through 20.0.0.4, which can be exploited by an attacke...

Microsoft Shells Out $100K for IoT Security

Microsoft has launched a bug-bounty program for its Azure Sphere offering, which is a security suite for the internet of things IoT that encompasses hardware, OS and cloud elements. The top reward will come in at $100,000. The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge is an expansion of a program...

Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge Now Open

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge is an expansion of Azure Security Lab, announced at Black Hat in August 2019. At that time, a select group of talented researchers was invited to come and do their worst, emulating criminal hackers in a customer-safe cloud environment. This new researc...

Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge Now Open

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge is an expansion of Azure Security Lab, announced at Black Hat in August 2019. At that time, a select group of talented researchers was invited to come and do their worst, emulating criminal hackers in a customer-safe cloud environment. This new researc...

Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge Now Open

The Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge is an expansion of Azure Security Lab, announced at Black Hat in August 2019. At that time, a select group of talented researchers was invited to come and do their worst, emulating criminal hackers in a customer-safe cloud environment. This new researc...

Apache ShardingSphere Code Issue Vulnerability

Apache ShardingSphere is the United States Apache Apache Software Foundation of a set of open source distributed database middleware solutions. A code issue vulnerability exists in Apache ShardingSphere incubator versions 4.0.0-RC3 and 4.0.0. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execut...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s answer to escalating IoT threats—reaches general availability

Today Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s integrated security solution for IoT devices and equipment—is widely available for the development and deployment of secure, connected devices. Azure Sphere’s general availability milestone couldn’t be timelier. From consumer device hacking and botnets to nation sta...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...