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...

April 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. Tags Security Advisory Securi...

July 2019 Security Update Release

We have released the July 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...

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...

MSRC Security Researcher Recognition: 2021

Wondering how to get into the 2021 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher list and get recognized during the Black Hat USA this August? Read on to learn more about the different paths you can take to get into the top researcher tiers. The MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher MVR and MSRC...

New and improved Security Update Guide!

We’re excited to announce a significant update to the Security Update Guide, our one-stop site for information about all security updates provided by Microsoft. This new version will provide a more intuitive user experience to help protect our customers regardless of what Microsoft products or...

Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard

Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it’s easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to announce the MS...

Announcing the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty

This week, we released the first Beta preview of the next version of Microsoft Edge. Alongside this, Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of the Microsoft Edge Insider Bounty Program. We welcome researchers to seek out and disclose any high impact vulnerabilities they may find in the next...

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...

July 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...

Microsoft addresses App Installer abuse

28 October 2024 Update Microsoft disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in App Installer on 28 December 2023 as a security response to protect customers from attackers’ evolving techniques against previous safeguards for CVE-2021-43890. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we...

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...

Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

With the launch of the new version of the Security Update Guide, Microsoft is demonstrating its commitment to industry standards by describing the vulnerabilities with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS. This is a precise method that describes the vulnerability with attributes such as t...

November 2019 security updates are available!

We have released the November 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,...

Welcome to the second stage of BlueHat!

We’ve finished two incredible days of security trainings at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. Now it’s time for the second part of BlueHat: the briefings at ShowBox SoDo. We’ve got a big day planned, so head on down. Please join us for breakfast we have doughnuts! and bacon! and cereal! when...

Microsoft launches Identity Bounty program

Modern security depends today on collaborative communication of identities and identity data within and across domains. A customer’s digital identity is often the key to accessing services and interacting across the internet. Microsoft has invested heavily in the security and privacy of both our...

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

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 this...

Microsoft Mitigates Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

May 9, 2023 update: Releases for Microsoft Products has been updated with the release of CVE-2023-29324 - Security Update Guide - Microsoft - Windows MSHTML Platform Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability March 24, 2023 update: Impact Assessment has been updated to a link to Guidance for...

Point and Print Default Behavior Change

Our investigation into several vulnerabilities collectively referred to as “PrintNightmare” has determined that the default behavior of Point and Print does not provide customers with the level of security required to protect against potential attacks. Today, we are addressing this risk by changi...

[AD 管理者向け] CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon の対応ガイダンスの概要

2020 年 8 月の月例セキュリティ更新プログラム 2020 年 8 月 11 日 公開 米国時間 にて、Active Directory で利用され...

Black Hat 2020: See you in the Cloud!

It hardly feels like summer without the annual trip to Las Vegas for Black Hat USA. With this year’s event being totally cloud based, we won’t have the chance to catch up with security researchers, industry partners, and customers in person, an opportunity we look forward to every year. We’ll sti...

Mitigation for Azure Storage SDK Client-Side Encryption Padding Oracle Vulnerability

Summary Summary Google informed Microsoft under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD of a padding oracle vulnerability that may affect customers using Azure Storage SDK for Python, .NET, Java client-side encryption CVE-2022-30187. To mitigate this vulnerability, we released a new General...

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...

Announcing the Top MSRC 2020 Q3 Security Researchers

Following the MSRC’s 2020 Most Valuable Security Researchers announced during this year’s Black Hat, we’re excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Third Quarter Q3! The top three researchers of the 2020 Q3 Security Researcher Leaderboard are: David Dworken 1800 points,...

Security Analysis of CHERI ISA

Is it possible to get to a state where memory safety issues would be deterministically mitigated? Our quest to mitigate memory corruption vulnerabilities led us to examine CHERI Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions, which provides memory protection features against many exploited...

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...

Additional Guidance Regarding OMI Vulnerabilities within Azure VM Management Extensions

Last updated on October 5, 2021: See revision history located at the end of the post for changes. On September 14, 2021, Microsoft released fixes for three Elevation of Privilege EoP vulnerabilities and one unauthenticated Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability in the Open Management...

Continuing to Listen: Good News about the Security Update Guide API!

Based on user feedback we have simplified programmatic access to the security update data by removing the authentication and API-Key requirements when using the CVRF API. You will no longer have to log in to obtain a personal API key to access the data. Were happy to make this valuable public...

Building Faster AMD64 Memset Routines

Over the past several years, Microsoft has rolled out several changes that result in more memory being zeroed. These mitigations include: The InitAll mitigation which zeros most stack variables Switching most Microsoft kernel code over to the ExAllocatePool2/ExAllocatePool3 API’s which zero memor...

Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition 2020 Invites Researchers to Defend and Attack

Machine learning ML is an increasingly valuable tool in cyber security as adversaries continually evolve their tactics and techniques to evade detection. As machine learning has advanced and sophisticated ML models have been developed to assist security professionals in protecting the cloud,...

Recognizing Q4 Top 5 Bounty Hunters

We have tabulated the results from April-June 2018. The Top 5 Bounty Hunters for Q4 are now in. As with our list from Q3, we want to recognize both the leaders in payouts and in number of successful submissions. We appreciate the hard work and dedication of the following individuals and companies...

Awareness and guidance related to potential Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) v1 web client risk

Summary Microsoft was recently made aware of a Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability CVE-2022-35829, that under limited circumstances, affects older versions of Service Fabric Explorer SFX. The current default SFX web client SFXv2 is not vulnerable to this attack. However, customers can manually...

Mitigation for Azure Storage SDK Client-Side Encryption Padding Oracle Vulnerability

Summary: Google informed Microsoft under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD of a padding oracle vulnerability that may affect customers using Azure Storage SDK for Python, .NET, Java client-side encryption CVE-2022-30187. To mitigate this vulnerability, we released a new General Availabilit...

A new experience for reporting copyright or trademark infringement on Microsoft Services

The Notice of Copyright or Trademark Infringement Portal has helped protect Microsofts users and customers from intellectual property infringement across online services like Microsoft Azure, Office, Outlook, Skype, Stream, Microsoft News, Sway, Hotmail, NuGet, and Yammer. Microsofts response to...

Congratulating Our Top 2020 Q1 Security Researchers!

Following the second Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard and the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers criteria we published in February 2020, we are excited to announce the 2020 First Quarter Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard, listing our top contributing researchers for the last...

Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020

Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...

Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware

Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymer ransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP BlueKeep, as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated and...

Microsoft Identity Bounty Improvements

Sharing the latest updates to the Microsoft Identity Bounty Program The post Microsoft Identity Bounty Improvements appeared first on Microsoft Security Response Center...

May 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...

CVE-2017-8759 のエクスプロイトの検出と無効化

本記事は、Microsoft Malware Protection Center のブログ “Exploit for CVE-2017-8759 detected and neutralized” 2017 年 9 月 12...

Kerberos KDC の脆弱性 (CVE-2020-17049) に対応するためのガイダンス

マイクロソフトは、2020 年 11 月 10 日 米国時間 に、Kerberos KDC Key Distribution Center に対する脆弱性情報 CVE-2020-17049 を公...

More Details About CVE-2014-4073 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Today Microsoft shipped MS14-057 to the .NET Framework in order to resolve an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in the ClickOnce deployment service. While this update fixes this service, developers using Managed Distributed Component Object Model a .NET wrapped around DCOM need to take immedia...

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 keyCredentials property of an Azure Active Directory Azure AD Application and/or Service Principal, and prevent reading of private key data...

The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

Our team, DeisLabs, recently released a new piece of software called Krustlet, which is a tool for running WebAssembly modules on the popular, open-source container management tool called Kubernetes. Kubernetes is used quite extensively to run cloud software across many vendors and companies and ...

Access Misconfiguration for Customer Support Database

Today, we concluded an investigation into a misconfiguration of an internal customer support database used for Microsoft support case analytics. While the investigation found no malicious use, and although most customers did not have personally identifiable information exposed, we want to be...

Microsoft mitigated exposure of internal information in a storage account due to overly-permissive SAS token

Summary As part of a recent Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD report from Wiz.io, Microsoft investigated and remediated an incident involving a Microsoft employee who shared a URL for a blob store in a public GitHub repository while contributing to open-source AI learning models. This URL...

Potential Risk of Privilege Escalation in Azure AD Applications

Summary Summary Microsoft has developed mitigations for an insecure anti-pattern used in Azure AD AAD applications highlighted by Descope, and reported to Microsoft, where use of the email claim from access tokens for authorization can lead to an escalation of privilege. An attacker can falsify t...

Multiple Security Updates Affecting TCP/IP:  CVE-2021-24074, CVE-2021-24094, and CVE-2021-24086

Today Microsoft released a set of fixes affecting Windows TCP/IP implementation that include two Critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerabilities CVE-2021-24074, CVE-2021-24094 and an Important Denial of Service DoS vulnerability CVE-2021-24086. The two RCE vulnerabilities are complex which mak...

January 2020 security updates are available!

We have released the January 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,...

BlueHat 2023: Connecting the security research community with Microsoft

We’re excited to welcome more than 400 members of the security research community from around the world to Redmond, Washington for BlueHat 2023. Hosted by the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, BlueHat is where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals, come...