Microsoft’s Response to Open-Source Vulnerabilities - CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5217

Microsoft is aware and has released patches associated with the two Open-Source Software security vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5217. Through our investigation, we found that these affect a subset of our products and as of today, we have addressed them in our products as outlined...

April 2021 Update Tuesday packages now available

Update August 25, 2021: Microsoft strongly recommends that you update your servers with the most recent security updates available. CVE-2021-34473 ProxyShell CVE-2021-34523 ProxyShell CVE-2021-33766 Today is Update Tuesday – our commitment to provide a predictable monthly schedule to release...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

We need a safer systems programming language

In our first post in this series, we discussed the need for proactively addressing memory safety issues. Tools and guidance are demonstrably not preventing this class of vulnerabilities; memory safety issues have represented almost the same proportion of vulnerabilities assigned a CVE for over a...

Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities Mitigations – updated March 15, 2021

Update March 15, 2021: If you have not yet patched, and have not applied the mitigations referenced below, a one-click tool, the Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool is now our recommended path to mitigate until you can patch. Microsoft previously blogged our strong recommendation that customers...

Analysis and mitigation of L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)

In January 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates for a new class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown. In this blog post, we will provide a technical analysis of a new speculative execution side channel...

Announcing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Bounty program

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is pleased to announce the launch of the Azure DevOps Bounty program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities i...

Guidance related to Secure Boot Manager changes associated with CVE-2023-24932

Summary Summary Today, Microsoft is releasing CVE-2023-24932, and associated configuration guidance, to address a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability used by the BlackLotus bootkit to exploit CVE-2022-21894. Customers will need to closely follow the configuration guidance to fully protect against th...

August 2019 Security Updates

We have released the August security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found in the Security Update Guide. As a reminder, Windo...

Why Rust for safe systems programming

In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represen...

OpenSSL 3.0 ~ 3.0.6 のリスク (CVE-2022-3786 および CVE-2202-3602) に関する認識とガイダンス

本ブログは、Awareness and guidance related to OpenSSL 3.0 – 3.0.6 risk CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2202-3602の抄訳版です。最新の...

CVE-2022-30190 マイクロソフト サポート診断ツールの脆弱性に関するガイダンス

本ブログは Guidance for CVE-2022-30190 Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 2022 年 7 月 12 日更新 : マイク...

Guidance for Azure Active Directory (AD) keyCredential property Information Disclosure in Application and Service Principal APIs

Microsoft recently mitigated an information disclosure issue, CVE-2021-42306, to prevent private key data from being stored by some Azure services in the keyCredentialsproperty of an Azure Active Directory Azure AD Applicationand/or Service Principal, and prevent reading of private key data...

Should You Send Your Pen Test Report to the MSRC?

Every day, the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC receives vulnerability reports from security researchers, technology/industry partners, and customers. We want those reports, because they help us make our products and services more secure. High-quality reports that include proof of concept,...

Guidance for CVE-2022-23278 spoofing in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft released a security update to address CVE-2022-23278 in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This important class spoofing vulnerability impacts all platforms. We wish to thank Falcon Force for the collaboration on addressing this issue through coordinated vulnerability disclosure...

BlueHat Seattle 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!

2019 has seen a phenomenal BlueHatIL in February followed by a wildly successful BlueHat Shanghai in May… now it’s time to come back home for BlueHat Seattle! 2 days of hands-on technical training October 22-23, 2019 2 days of conference talks from industry-leading security researchers and cyber...

Guidance for Azure Active Directory (AD) keyCredential property Information Disclosure in Application and Service Principal APIs

Microsoft recently mitigated an information disclosure issue, CVE-2021-42306, to prevent private key data from being stored by some Azure services in the keyCredentialsproperty of an Azure Active Directory Azure AD Applicationand/or Service Principal, and prevent reading of private key data...

Guidance for responders: Investigating and remediating on-premises Exchange Server vulnerabilities

This guidance will help customers address threats taking advantage of the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server on-premises vulnerabilities CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-26857, and CVE-2021-27065, which are being exploited. We strongly urge customers to immediately update system...

Attacks exploiting Netlogon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472)

Microsoft has received a small number of reports from customers and others about continued activity exploiting a vulnerability affecting the Netlogon protocol CVE-2020-1472 which was previously addressed in security updates starting on August 11, 2020. If the original guidance is not applied, the...

Meet the BlueHat Content Advisory Board

We couldn’t do BlueHat without the Content Advisory Board, the brain trust reviewing submissions to the CFP. Representing both Microsoft and other parts of security community, the CAB applies their industry and speaker experience to create the BlueHat agenda that’s the right mix of topics and...

Time zone updates for Brazil are available for 2019/2020

The June 2019 update provides below changes for Brazil Daylight Savings Time DST. Brazil has decided to no longer follow DST. DST won’t start on the first Sunday of November 2019 as previously scheduled. More details about latest DST changes for Brazil can be found here. To reflect these changes...

Out-of-Band (OOB) Security Update available for CVE-2021-34527

Today Microsoft released an Out-of-Band OOB security update for CVE-2021-34527, which is being discussed externally as PrintNightmare. This is a cumulative update release, so it contains all previous security fixes and should be applied immediately to fully protect your systems. The fix that we...

Vulnerability mitigated in the third-party Data Connector used in Azure Synapse pipelines and Azure Data Factory (CVE-2022-29972)

Summary Microsoft recently mitigated a vulnerability in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse pipelines. The vulnerability was specific to the third-party Open Database Connectivity ODBC driver used to connect to Amazon Redshift in Azure Synapse pipelines and Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime...

How Microsoft defends against indirect prompt injection attacks

Summary The growing adoption of large language models LLMs in enterprise workflows has introduced a new class of adversarial techniques: indirect prompt injection. Indirect prompt injection can be used against systems that leverage large language models LLMs to process untrusted data...

Clarified Guidance for CVE-2021-34527 Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability

On Tuesday July 6, 2021, Microsoft issued CVE-2021-34527 regarding a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability. Updates were released on July 6 and 7 which addressed the vulnerability for all supported Windows versions. We encourage customers to update as soon as possible. CVE-2021-34527 - Windows Prin...

Microsoft Announces Top Three Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today Microsoft announced the MAPP program Top Vulnerability Contributors, Top Threat Indicator Submitters, and Top Zero-Day Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and...

Microsoft Launches a New Recognition Program for MAPP Partners

There are many dedicated people and organizations who contribute to the protection and security of our common customers. For years, Microsoft has recognized security researchers for helping protect the ecosystem. Now, we’re announcing the launch of a new program to better recognize and thank...

Analysis and mitigation of L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)

In January 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates for a new class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown. In this blog post, we will provide a technical analysis of a new speculative execution side channel...

April 2021 Update Tuesday packages now available

Update August 25, 2021: Microsoft strongly recommends that you update your servers with the most recent security updates available. CVE-2021-34473 ProxyShell CVE-2021-34523 ProxyShell CVE-2021-33766 Today is Update Tuesday – our commitment to provide a predictable monthly schedule to release...

Microsoft Response to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks against HTTP/2

Summary Beginning in September 2023, Microsoft was notified by industry partners about a newly identified Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attack technique being used in the wild targeting HTTP/2 protocol. This vulnerability CVE-2023-44487 impacts any internet exposed HTTP/2 endpoints. As an...

Prevent the impact of a Linux worm by updating Exim (CVE-2019-10149)

This week, MSRC confirmed the presence of an active Linux worm leveraging a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability, CVE-2019-10149, in Linux Exim email servers running Exim version 4.87 to 4.91. Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Services are not affected; only customer’s Linux IaaS...

Exciting updates to the Copilot (AI) Bounty Program: Enhancing security and incentivizing innovation

At Microsoft, we are committed to fostering a secure and innovative environment for our customers and users. As part of this commitment, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to our Copilot AI Bounty Program. These changes are designed to enhance the program's effectiveness, incentivize...

Congratulations and New Swag Awards for the Top MSRC 2022 Q1 Security Researchers!

Today, we are excited to recognize this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard and share new swag awards and improvements to the leaderboard. Congratulations and thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researche...

January 2019 Security Update Release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide...

Awareness and guidance related to OpenSSL 3.0 – 3.0.6 risk (CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2202-3602)

Summary Microsoft is aware and actively addressing the impact associated with the recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities announced on October 25th 2022, fixed in version 3.0.7. As part of our standard processes, we are rolling out fixes for impacted services. Any customer action that is required will be...

BlueHat Asia 2025: Closing soon: Submit your papers by September 5, 2025

The next chapter of the Microsoft Security Response Center’s MSRC BlueHat security conference is fast approaching. BlueHat Asia 2025 will take place in Bengaluru, India, on November 5 – 6, 2025 and the Call for Papers is now open. Submissions will be accepted through September 5, 2025. Now in its...

Microsoft’s Response to CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j 2

Published on: 2021 Dec 11, updated 2022 Apr 6. SUMMARY SUMMARY Microsoft continues our analysis of the remote code execution vulnerabilities related to Apache Log4j a logging tool used in many Java-based applications disclosed on 9 Dec 2021. Currently, Microsoft is not aware of any impact, outsid...

An intern’s experience with Rust

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, I worked on the safe systems programming languages SSPL team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security critical...

Designing a COM library for Rust

I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language SSPL group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog po...

2019 年 7 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 7 月 10 日 日本時間、マイクロソフトは以下のソフトウェアのセキュリティ更新プログラムを公開しました。...

CVE-2013-3906: a graphics vulnerability exploited through Word documents

Recently we become aware of a vulnerability of a Microsoft graphics component that is actively exploited in targeted attacks using crafted Word documents sent by email. Today we are releasing Security Advisory 2896666 which includes a proactive Fix it workaround for blocking this attack while we...

CVE-2023-24932 に関連するセキュア ブート マネージャーの変更に関するガイダンス

本ブログは、Guidance related to Secure Boot Manager changes associated with CVE-2023-24932 の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 概要...

マイクロソフトは Outlook の 特権昇格の脆弱性を緩和します

本ブログは、Microsoft Mitigates Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してください。 2023 年 5 月...

Calling all breakers & builders: BlueHat Seattle registration is open!

Exciting changes are coming to BlueHat Seattle 2019! If you’d like to attend this premier security conference, we have good news for you: registration for BlueHat Seattle is now open and we hope you register. Wait, isn't BlueHat invitation-only? It is…but if we haven’t sent you an invitation, we...

Acquiring a VHD to Investigate

In a previous post we described some of the differences between on-premises/physical forensics and cyber investigations and those performed in the cloud, and how this can make cloud forensics challenging. That blog post described a method of creating and maintaining a VM image which can be...

Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708)

Today Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP itself is not vulnerable. This vulnerability is...

Microsoft’s Response to CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j 2

Published on: 2021 Dec 11, updated 2022 Apr 6. SUMMARY Microsoft continues our analysis of the remote code execution vulnerabilities related to Apache Log4j a logging tool used in many Java-based applications disclosed on 9 Dec 2021. Currently, Microsoft is not aware of any impact, outside of the...

Windows Print Spooler の脆弱性情報 (CVE-2021-34527) に関するお客様向けガイダンス

2021 年 7 月 7 日 日本時間 に、マイクロソフトは Windows Print Spooler の脆弱性情報 CVE-2021-34527 を公開し、7 月 7 日と 8 日 日本時間...

Announcing 2019 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers

Earlier today we announced MSRC’s 2018-2019 Most Valuable Security Researchers at Black Hat. The following 75 researchers hail from all corners of the world and possess varied experience and skills, yet all of them have contributed to securing the Microsoft’s customers and the broader ecosystem...

It’s Official – The Way We Recognize Our Security Researchers

We deeply appreciate the partnership of the many talented security researchers who report vulnerabilities to Microsoft through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. We pay bounties for research in key areas, and each year at Black Hat USA, we’ve recognized the most impactful researchers helping t...