“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...

October 2018 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 in the Security Update Guide. MSRC team...

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...

Using Rust in Windows

This Saturday 9th of November, there will be a keynote from Microsoft engineers Ryan Levick and Sebastian Fernandez at RustFest Barcelona. They will be talking about why Microsoft is exploring Rust adoption, some of the challenges we’ve faced in this process, and the future of Rust adoption in...

December 2018 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...

The Making of the Top 100 Researcher List

At Black Hat USA each year, we unveil the Top 100 Security Researcher list to reflect the amazing engagement we get from the community. During this period, we had several thousand researchers engage with the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC. We appreciate all the partnership and coordinati...

Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases

For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...

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...

Building the Azure IoT Edge Security Daemon in Rust

Azure IoT Edge is an open source, cross platform software project from the Azure IoT team at Microsoft that seeks to solve the problem of managing distribution of compute to the edge of your on-premise network from the cloud. This post explains some of the rationale behind our choice of Rust as t...

Azure Security Lab: a new space for Azure research and collaboration

Azure is exceptionally secure. To help keep it that way, we are doubling the top bounty reward for Azure vulnerabilities to $40,000. But we aren’t stopping there. To make it easier for security researchers to confidently and aggressively test Azure, we are inviting a select group of talented...

Advance Notification Service for July 2013 Security Bulletin Release

Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of seven bulletins, six Critical and one Important, for July 2013. The Critical bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, .NET Framework, Silverlight, Internet Explorer and GDI+. Also scheduled for inclusion among these...

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...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

Microsoft Internal Solorigate Investigation – Final Update

We believe the Solorigate incident is an opportunity to work with the community, to share information, strengthen defenses and respond to attacks. We have now completed our internal investigation into the activity of the actor and want to share our findings, which confirm that we found no evidenc...

Netlogon Domain Controller Enforcement Mode is enabled by default beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update, related to CVE-2020-1472

Microsoft addressed a Critical RCE vulnerability affecting the Netlogon protocol CVE-2020-1472 on August 11, 2020. We are reminding our customers that beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update release we will be enabling Domain Controller enforcement mode by default. This will block...

Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks

Note: we are updating as the investigation continues. Revision history listed at the bottom. This post contains technical details about the methods of the actor we believe was involved in Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks, with the goal to enable the broader security community to hunt for activit...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL: DOM XSS

In two previous blog posts part 1 and part 2, we talked about using Semmle QL in C and C++ codebases to find vulnerabilities such as integer overflow, path traversal, and those leading to memory corruption. In this post, we will explore applying Semmle QL to web security by hunting for one of­­­...

Patch new wormable vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-1181/1182)

Today Microsoft released a set of fixes for Remote Desktop Services that include two critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182. Like the previously-fixed ‘BlueKeep’ vulnerability CVE-2019-0708, these two vulnerabilities are also ‘wormable’, meaning that a...

Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards

This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...

New and Improved Report Abuse Portal and API!

The Report Abuse CERT Portal and Report Abuse API have played a significant role in MSRC’s response to suspected cyberattacks, privacy issues, and abuse originating from Microsoft Online Services. With the contributions from our wonderful community of reporters, we continue to gain insightful...

Security Update Guide Supports CVEs Assigned by Industry Partners

Hi Folks, This month we are introducing a new data element for each CVE in the Security Update Guide, called Assigning CNA. First let me back up a bit and give some information about the CVE program. The purpose of a CVE is to uniquely identify a cybersecurity vulnerability. The CVE program was...

Solorigate Resource Center – updated February 5, 2021

Alongside our industry partners and the security community, Microsoft continues to investigate the extent of the recent nation-state attack on SolarWinds. Our goal is to provide the latest threat intelligence, Indicators of Compromise IOCs, and guidance across our products and solutions to help t...

BlueHat Seattle videos are online!

Were you unable to attend BlueHat Seattle, or wanted to see a session again? We have good news. If you have been waiting for the videos from BlueHat Seattle last month, the wait is over. All videos which the presenter authorized to be recorded are now online and available to anyone. We are also...

Corporate IoT – a path to intrusion

Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...

March 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...

Inside MSRC: Sharing Our Story & Customer Tips

For the last 20 years, the Microsoft Security Response Center has been an integral part of Microsoft’s commitment to customer security. We are often called on to talk about the work we do and how customers can apply the lessons we have learned over that period to better their security posture...

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...

Microsoft’s Response to CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework

Summary Microsoft used the Spring Framework RCE, Early Announcement to inform analysis of the remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2022-22965, disclosed on 31 Mar 2022. We have not to date noted any impact to the security of our enterprise services and have not experienced any degraded servic...

2019 年 9 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)

2019 年 9 月 11 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。 The post 2019 年 9 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム 月例 appeared first on Microsoft Security Response Center...

KVA Shadow: Mitigating Meltdown on Windows

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates that relate to a new class of discovered hardware vulnerabilities, termed speculative execution side channels, that affect the design methodology and implementation decisions behind many modern microprocessors. This post...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Microsoft’s Response to CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework

Summary Summary Microsoft used the Spring Framework RCE, Early Announcement to inform analysis of the remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2022-22965, disclosed on 31 Mar 2022. We have not to date noted any impact to the security of our enterprise services and have not experienced any degrade...

Announcing the Top MSRC 2021 Q2 Security Researchers – Congratulations!

We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2021 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s leaderboard and thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of the 2021 ...

Top MSRC 2020 Q4 Security Researchers – Congratulations!

We’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Fourth Quarter Q4! Congratulations to all of the researchers who made this quarter’s leaderboard and a huge thank you to everyone who continues to help secure our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of the...

Patch new wormable vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-1181/1182)

Today Microsoft released a set of fixes for Remote Desktop Services that include two critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182. Like the previously-fixed ‘BlueKeep’ vulnerability CVE-2019-0708, these two vulnerabilities are also ‘wormable’, meaning that a...

A Reminder to Update Your Systems to Prevent a Worm

On May 14, 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. In our previous blog post on this topic we warned that the vulnerability is...

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...

CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework に対するマイクロソフトの対応

本ブログは、Microsoft’s Response to CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework 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 概...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Mobile Applications Security Research

We are pleased to announce the addition of Microsoft Teams mobile applications to the Microsoft Applications Bounty Program. Through the expanded program we welcome researchers from across the globe to seek out and disclose any high impact security vulnerabilities they may find in Teams mobile...

October 2019 security updates are available!

We have released the October 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,...

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...

Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server

November 8, 2022 update - Microsoft released security updates for CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082. We recommend that customers protect their organizations by applying the updates immediately to affected systems. The options described in the Mitigations section are no longer recommended. For mor...

Coordinated disclosure of vulnerability in Azure Container Instances Service

Microsoft recently mitigated a vulnerability reported by a security researcher in the Azure Container Instances ACI. Our investigation surfaced no unauthorized access to customer data. Out of an abundance of caution we notified customers with containers running on the same clusters as the...

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...

April 2021 Update Tuesday packages now available

Today is Update Tuesday – our commitment to provide a predictable monthly schedule to release updates and provide the latest protection to our customers. Update Tuesday is a monthly cycle when Microsoft releases patches for vulnerabilities that we have found proactively or that have been disclose...

One-Click Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool – March 2021

We have been actively working with customers through our customer support teams, third-party hosters, and partner network to help them secure their environments and respond to associated threats from the recent Exchange Server on-premises attacks. Based on these engagements we realized that there...

On-Premises Exchange Server Vulnerabilities Resource Center – updated March 25, 2021

MSRC / By MSRC Team / March 2, 2021 On March 2nd, we released several security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities that are being used in ongoing attacks. Due to the critical nature of these vulnerabilities, we recommend that customers protect their organizations by...

Scalable infrastructure for investigations and incident response

Traditional computer forensics and cyber investigations are as relevant in the cloud as they are in on-premise environments, but the methods in which to access and perform such investigations differ. This post will describe some of the challenges of bringing on-premises forensics techniques to th...

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...