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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...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2023 Q4 Security Researchers!
Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen,...
Microsoft resolves four SSRF vulnerabilities in Azure cloud services
Summary Microsoft recently fixed a set of Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerabilities in four Azure services Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins reported by Orca Security. These SSRF vulnerabilities were determined to be low risk as they do...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vulnerability mitigated in the third-party Data Connector used in Azure Synapse pipelines and Azure Data Factory (CVE-2022-29972)
Summary 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...
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...
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...
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...
Improved Guidance for Azure Network Service Tags
Summary Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC was notified in January 2024 by our industry partner, Tenable Inc., about the potential for cross-tenant access to web resources using the service tags feature. Microsoft acknowledged that Tenable provided a valuable contribution to the Azure...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Azure Serial Console Attack and Defense - Part 2
This is the second installment of the Azure Serial Console blog, which provides insights to improve defenders’ preparedness when investigating Azure Serial Console activity on Azure Linux virtual machines. While the first blog post discussed various tracing activities, such as using Azure activit...
Guidance on Potential Misconfiguration of Authorization of Multi-Tenant Applications that use Azure AD
Summary Summary Microsoft has addressed an authorization misconfiguration for multi-tenant applications that use Azure AD, initially discovered by Wiz, and reported to Microsoft, that impacted a small number of our internal applications. The misconfiguration allowed external parties read and writ...
Congratulations to the Top MSRC 2022 Q4 Security Researchers!
Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2022 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are:...
Randomizing the KUSER_SHARED_DATA Structure on Windows
Windows 10 made a lot of improvements in Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization KASLR that increases the cost of exploitation, particularly for remote code execution exploits. Many kernel virtual address space VAS locations including kernel stacks, pools, system PTEs etc. are randomized. A...
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...
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,...
September 2019 Security Updates
We have released the September 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,...
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...
Assessing risk for the May 2014 security updates
Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 13 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six have a maximum severity rating of Important. The table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environmen...
Service Fabric Privilege Escalation from Containerized Workloads on Linux
Under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD, cloud-security vendor Palo Alto Networks informed Microsoft of an issue affecting Service Fabric SF Linux clusters CVE-2022-30137. The vulnerability enables a bad actor, with access to a compromised container, to escalate privileges and gain control...
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...
July 2020 Security Update: CVE-2020-1350 Vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server
Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all...
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 Call for Papers is Now Open!
For nearly 20 years, BlueHat has been where the security research community, and Microsoft security professionals come together as peers, to share, debate, challenge, learn, and exchange ideas in the interest of creating a safer and more secure world for all. We are extremely excited to announce...
Exploring a New Class of Kernel Exploit Primitive
The security landscape is dynamic, changing often and as a result, attack surfaces evolve. MSRC receives a wide variety of cases spanning different products, bug types and exploit primitives. One particularly interesting primitive we see is an arbitrary kernel pointer read. These often happen whe...
July 2020 Security Update: CVE-2020-1350 Vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server
Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all...
2017 年 10 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2017/10/17 更新 本日、ADV170016 が廃止され、CVE-2017-13080が 2017 年 10 月のセキュリティ リリ...
Congratulations to the top MSRC 2026 Q2 security researchers!
Congratulations to the researchers recognized in the MSRC 2026 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard. This quarter marks the final quarterly points-based leaderboard as we transition to our updated researcher recognition program. We are grateful for the contributions of the security research communi...
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...
Investigation Regarding Misconfigured Microsoft Storage Location
October 28, 2022 update: Added a Customer FAQ section. Summary Summary Security researchers at SOCRadar informed Microsoft on September 24, 2022, of a misconfigured Microsoft endpoint. This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to some business transaction data...
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...
Security Update Guide: Let’s keep the conversation going
Hi Folks, We want to continue to highlight changes we’ve made to our Security Update Guide. We have received a lot of feedback, much of which has been very positive. We acknowledge there have been some stability problems and we are actively working through reports of older browsers not being able...
Solving Uninitialized Kernel Pool Memory on Windows
This blog post outlines the work that Microsoft is doing to eliminate uninitialized kernel pool memory vulnerabilities from Windows and why we’re on this path. For a background on why uninitialized memory matters and what options have been used in the past to tackle this issue, please see our...
January 2020 Security Updates: CVE-2020-0601
The January security updates include several Important and Critical security updates. As always, we recommend that customers update their systems as quickly as practical. Details for the full set of updates released today can be found in the Security Update Guide. We believe in Coordinated...
June 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. MSRC team...
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...
Mitigating SSRF Vulnerabilities Impacting Azure Machine Learning
Summary On May 9, 2024, Microsoft successfully addressed multiple vulnerabilities within the Azure Machine Learning AML service, which were initially discovered by security research firms Wiz and Tenable. These vulnerabilities, which included Server-Side Request Forgeries SSRF and a path traversa...
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Threat Hunting
As more businesses shift away from running workloads on dedicated virtual machines to running them inside containers using workload orchestrators like Kubernetes, adversaries have become more interested in them as targets. Moreover, the benefits Kubernetes provides for managing workloads are also...
Service Fabric Privilege Escalation from Containerized Workloads on Linux
Under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD, cloud-security vendor Palo Alto Networks informed Microsoft of an issue affecting Service Fabric SF Linux clusters CVE-2022-30137. The vulnerability enables a bad actor, with access to a compromised container, to escalate privileges and gain control...
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution
MSRC was informed by Wiz, a cloud security vendor, under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD of an issue with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexib...
December 2018 Security Update Release
Today, we released a security update for Internet Explorer after receiving a report from Google about a new vulnerability being used in targeted attacks. Customers who have Windows Update enabled and have applied the latest security updates, are protected automatically. We encourage customers to...
2018 年 12 月のセキュリティ更新プログラム (月例)
2018/12/20 更新: 新たに定例外で公開した Internet Explorer の脆弱性 CVE-2018-8653 の情報を追加しました。 2018 年 12 月 12 日 日本時間、マイクロ...
March 2018 security update release
Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about this...