Microsoft May 2013 Black Tuesday Overview
Overview of the May 2013 Microsoft patches and their status.
| # | Affected | Contra Indications - KB | Known Exploits | Microsoft rating(**) | ISC rating(*) | |
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| MS13-037 |
The usual monthly MSIE cumulative patch, adding fixes for 11 more vulnerabilities. All but one are use after free vulnerabilities. The odd one is about vbscript allowing read access to JSON data related to another domain. Replaces MS13-028. |
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MSIE CVE-2013-0811 CVE-2013-1297 CVE-2013-1306 CVE-2013-1307 CVE-2013-1308 CVE-2013-1309 CVE-2013-1310 CVE-2013-1311 CVE-2013-1312 CVE-2013-1313 CVE-2013-2551 |
KB 2829530 | No publicly known exploits |
Severity:Critical Exploitability:1 |
Critical | Important | |
| MS13-038 |
The anticipated IE8 fix. Note that IE9 is listed as affected as well, but it's not given a rating "because the known attack vectors for the vulnerability discussed in this bulletin are blocked in a default configuration." Note that this is not the cumulatieve IE patch, nor is the fix part of the cumulative patch this month. The bulletin states there is no need to uninstall the MSFT Fix-it released earlier for this vulnerability. |
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MSIE CVE-2013-1347 |
KB 2847204 | Publicly discussed and exploit code available. Security advisory 2847140 |
Severity:Critical Exploitability:1 |
PATCH NOW | Important | |
| MS13-039 | A vulnerability in the handling of HTTP headers in the HTTP stack allows a Denial of Service. | |||||
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HTTP.sys CVE-2013-1305 |
KB 2829254 | No publicly known exploits. |
Severity:Important Exploitability:3 |
Important | Important | |
| MS13-040 |
Incorrect validation of signed XML files allows for failing to detect changes in said files and an authentication bypass allowing unauthenticated access. The impact of these vulnerabilities high depends on what applications make use of these features. Replaces MS10-041. |
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.NET CVE-2013-1336 CVE-2013-1337 |
KB 2836440 | Microsoft claims the vulnerability CVE-2013-1337 was publicly disclosed. |
Severity:Important Exploitability:? |
Important | Important | |
| MS13-041 |
A memory corruption vulnerability allows random code execution in the context of the current user. Note the lync user level install of Lync 2010 Attendee is only available from the Microsoft Download Center - not via automatic updates. Replaces MS12-066. |
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Lync CVE-2013-1302 |
KB 2834695 | No publicly known exploits. |
Severity:Important Exploitability:2 |
Critical | Important | |
| MS13-042 |
A multitude of vulnerabilities in Publisher allow random code execution. Replaces MS11-091. |
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Publisher CVE-2013-1316 CVE-2013-1317 CVE-2013-1318 CVE-2013-1319 CVE-2013-1320 CVE-2013-1321 CVE-2013-1322 CVE-2013-1323 CVE-2013-1327 CVE-2013-1328 CVE-2013-1329 |
KB 2830397 | No publicly known exploits |
Severity:Important Exploitability:1 |
Critical | Important | |
| MS13-043 |
Incorrect handling of shape data in word allows random code execution with the rights of the logged on user. Note that when word is used to read incoming email messages, it can be affected merely via previewing incoming emailed RTF data! |
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Word CVE-2013-13335 |
KB 2830399 | No publicly known exploits |
Severity:Important Exploitability:2 |
Critical | Important | |
| MS13-044 |
A problem in handling XML files that references external files in Visio allows information leak and read access with the rights of the logged-on user. Replace MS11-060 and MS13-023. |
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Visio CVE-2013-1301 |
KB 2834692 | No publicly known exploits. |
Severity:Important Exploitability:3 |
Important | Important | |
| MS13-045 | Windows Writer - part of the Windows Essentials package - is a client to manage blogs. The vulnerability allows overriding proxy settings and overwriting files accessible to the logged-on user. | |||||
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Windows Essentials CVE-2013-0096 |
KB 2813707 | No publicly known exploits |
Severity:Important Exploitability:3 |
Critical | Important | |
| MS13-046 |
Multiple vulnerabilities in Kernel Mode Drivers allow privilege escalation. Replaces MS13-036 and MS13-031. |
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Kernel Mode Drivers CVE-2013-1332 CVE-2013-1333 CVE-2013-1334 |
KB 2840221 | No publicly known exploits |
Severity:Important Exploitability:1 |
Imporant | Important | |
We appreciate updates
US based customers can call Microsoft for free patch related support on 1-866-PCSAFETY
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We use 4 levels:
- PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds are typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
- Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more time to test.
- Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
- Less Urgent: Typically we expect the impact if left unpatched to be not that big a deal in the short term. Do not forget them however.
- The difference between the client and server rating is based on how you use the affected machine. We take into account the typical client and server deployment in the usage of the machine and the common measures people typically have in place already. Measures we presume are simple best practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
- The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threat for affected systems. The rating does not account for the number of affected systems there are. It is for an affected system in a typical worst-case role.
- Only the organization itself is in a position to do a full risk analysis involving the presence (or lack of) affected systems, the actually implemented measures, the impact on their operation and the value of the assets involved.
- All patches released by a vendor are important enough to have a close look if you use the affected systems. There is little incentive for vendors to publicize patches that do not have some form of risk to them.
(**): The exploitability rating we show is the worst of them all due to the too large number of ratings Microsoft assigns to some of the patches.
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Microsoft Security Advisory overview
Malware Protection Engine
Microsoft released security advisory 2846338 indicating that they have update their Malware Protection Engine (used in a varierty of their anti malware products) to fix a vulnerability in said engine where an attacker would be able to execute random code in the context of LocalSytem. Micorosft claims the vulnerability was publicly disclosed as a DoS.
CVE: CVE-2013-1346
ActiveX killbits rollup
Microsoft released security advisory 2820197 describing the addition of killbits for Honeywell Enterprise Buildings Integrator: {0d080d7d-28d2-4f86-bfa1-d582e5ce4867} and SymmetrE and ComfortPoint Open Manager: {29e9b436-dfac-42f9-b209-bd37bafe9317}
IE10 - flash
Microsoft updated security advisory 2755801 to announce the availability of update Adobe Flash libraries. This corresponds with APSB13-14.
CVE-2013-1347 MSHTML Shim Workaround update
Microsoft updated security advisory 2847140 to reflect the release of MS13-08
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CVE-2013-2094: Linux privilege escalation
A vulnerability was discovered using fuzzing in linux kernels 2.6.37 till 3.8.9. The vulenrability requires the kernel to be compiled with PERF_EVENTS, but unfortunately that seems the case for quite some linux distributions. CentOS even backported the vulnerability to 2.6.32.
Impact is local privilege escalation, and exploit code is readily available.
More information: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2094
Hat tip: James for sending us some pointers to this.
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Firefox & Thunderbird released
Mozilla decided to join the mayhem on Black Tuesday this month and released Firefox and Thunderbird.
This updates to:
- Firefox 21.0
- Firefox ESR 17.0.6
- Thunderbird 17.0.6
- Thunderbird ESR 17.0.6
Release notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox.html
Security content o fthe updates:
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MFSA 2013-48 Memory corruption found using Address Sanitizer
CVE-2013-1676, CVE-2013-1677, CVE-2013-1678, CVE-2013-1679, CVE-2013-1680 and CVE-2013-1681 -
MFSA 2013-47 Uninitialized functions in DOMSVGZoomEvent
CVE-2013-1675 -
MFSA 2013-46 Use-after-free with video and onresize event
CVE-2013-1674 -
MFSA 2013-45 Mozilla Updater fails to update some Windows Registry entries
CVE-2013-1673 and CVE-2012-1942 -
MFSA 2013-44 Local privilege escalation through Mozilla Maintenance Service
CVE-2013-1672 -
MFSA 2013-43 File input control has access to full path
CVE-2013-1671 -
MFSA 2013-42 Privileged access for content level constructor
CVE-2013-1670 -
MFSA 2013-41 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:21.0 / rv:17.0.6)
CVE-2013-0801 and CVE-2013-1669
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Adobe May 2013 Black Tuesday Overview
Adobe released their May 2013 Black Tueday bulletins:
| # | Affected | CVE | Adobe rating |
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| APSB13-13 | ColdFusion |
CVE-2013-1387 CVE-2013-1388 |
Critical |
| APSB13-14 | Flash Player and AIR |
CVE-2013-2728 CVE-2013-3324 CVE-2013-3325 CVE-2013-3326 CVE-2013-3327 CVE-2013-3328 CVE-2013-3329 CVE-2013-3330 CVE-2013-3331 CVE-2013-3332 CVE-2013-3333 CVE-2013-3334 CVE-2013-3335 |
Critical |
| APSB13-15 | Reader and Acrobat |
CVE-2013-2549 CVE-2013-2550 CVE-2013-2718 CVE-2013-2719 CVE-2013-2720 CVE-2013-2721 CVE-2013-2722 CVE-2013-2723 CVE-2013-2724 CVE-2013-2725 CVE-2013-2726 CVE-2013-2727 CVE-2013-2729 CVE-2013-2730 CVE-2013-2731 CVE-2013-2732 CVE-2013-2733 CVE-2013-2734 CVE-2013-2735 CVE-2013-2736 CVE-2013-2737 CVE-2013-3337 CVE-2013-3338 CVE-2013-3339 CVE-2013-3340 CVE-2013-3341 CVE-2013-3342 |
Critical |
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So what passwords are those ssh scanners trying?
If you run an ssh server (especially if you still run it on the default port), you've no doubt had plenty of folks scan your machine and do password guessing attacks against it. BTW, you'll never get in mine that way, I only allow public/private key authentication, but that is beside the point here. I've done a couple of other reports analyzing passwords, and I really like pipal by Robin Wood for much of the analysis (you can grab it from here). I've been running a kippo ssh honeypot for the day job for about 2 years and I've done a couple of reports on the password guesses for the ThreatTraq webcast, but then I discovered that in addition to firewall logs and the 404 logs, we also collect kippo logs here at the SANS Internet Storm Center. Ooh, more data!! If you'd like contribute, please grab https://isc.sans.edu/kipposcript.pl. So, without further ado, here is what I've found in our kippo data (as of about 15 April 2013). I should note here, though, that these are the guesses the bad guys are making. They've developed their lists most likely based on what has worked for someone at some point, so they will be somewhat different from what you find in analyzing passwords from breaches like my analysis of last year's Yahoo breach.
The Basics
Total entries = 15415314
Total unique entries = 46840
The Results
Top 10 passwords
123456 = 167854 (1.09%)
password = 113640 (0.74%)
cacutza = 99492 (0.65%)
__--_-__-_ = 79153 (0.51%)
123 = 63557 (0.41%)
root = 61560 (0.4%)
1234 = 58103 (0.38%)
123456789 = 57270 (0.37%)
12345 = 53445 (0.35%)
test = 52231 (0.34%)
Okay, the first thing to note, is that the default password for kippo is 123456, so that may skew the above a bit. The one I personally find most interesting is the 4th one, '__--_-__-_'.
Top 10 base words
password = 295354 (1.92%)
test = 192825 (1.25%)
pass = 127086 (0.82%)
root = 121704 (0.79%)
cacutza = 99492 (0.65%)
temp = 97145 (0.63%)
p@ssw0rd = 92650 (0.6%)
p4ssword = 88344 (0.57%)
changeme = 74842 (0.49%)
p4ssw0rd = 74329 (0.48%)
So, some variation on password (with or without substitutions).
Password length (count ordered)
6 = 2708563 (17.57%)
8 = 2275062 (14.76%)
7 = 1550776 (10.06%)
9 = 1394644 (9.05%)
10 = 1234997 (8.01%)
4 = 1143617 (7.42%)
5 = 1025693 (6.65%)
12 = 766462 (4.97%)
11 = 647696 (4.2%)
3 = 437702 (2.84%)
The password guesses varied in length from 1 (do people actually allow 1 character passwords?) to 70 characters in length. The longest ones being shown below
56 = 4504 (0.03%)
57 = 180 (0.0%)
58 = 465 (0.0%)
60 = 17 (0.0%)
62 = 800 (0.01%)
63 = 69 (0.0%)
64 = 369 (0.0%)
70 = 9 (0.0%)
71 = 908 (0.01%)
The mix
One to six characters = 5463941 (35.44%)
One to eight characters = 9289779 (60.26%)
More than eight characters = 6125535 (39.74%)
Only lowercase alpha = 5126974 (33.26%)
Only uppercase alpha = 140773 (0.91%)
Only alpha = 5267747 (34.17%)
Only numeric = 1906165 (12.37%)
First capital last symbol = 135964 (0.88%)
First capital last number = 958843 (6.22%)
One to six characters = 5463941 (35.44%)
One to eight characters = 9289779 (60.26%)
More than eight characters = 6125535 (39.74%)
Only lowercase alpha = 5126974 (33.26%)
Only uppercase alpha = 140773 (0.91%)
Only alpha = 5267747 (34.17%)
Only numeric = 1906165 (12.37%)
First capital last symbol = 135964 (0.88%)
First capital last number = 958843 (6.22%)
Last digit
3 = 1621502 (10.52%)
1 = 1394507 (9.05%)
0 = 620126 (4.02%)
4 = 593100 (3.85%)
6 = 548727 (3.56%)
2 = 478758 (3.11%)
5 = 420699 (2.73%)
9 = 407320 (2.64%)
8 = 318715 (2.07%)
7 = 303304 (1.97%)
Last 3 digits (Top 10)
123 = 1156095 (7.5%)
456 = 380369 (2.47%)
234 = 340074 (2.21%)
345 = 234638 (1.52%)
321 = 212258 (1.38%)
789 = 192424 (1.25%)
678 = 166984 (1.08%)
567 = 154030 (1.0%)
001 = 146204 (0.95%)
111 = 91160 (0.59%)
Character sets
loweralpha: 5126974 (33.26%)
loweralphanum: 4803721 (31.16%)
numeric: 1906165 (12.37%)
loweralphaspecialnum: 803707 (5.21%)
mixedalphanum: 768137 (4.98%)
mixedalphaspecialnum: 641067 (4.16%)
loweralphaspecial: 344881 (2.24%)
upperalphanum: 181283 (1.18%)
mixedalpha: 151523 (0.98%)
special: 149786 (0.97%)
upperalpha: 140773 (0.91%)
upperalphaspecialnum: 133340 (0.86%)
mixedalphaspecial: 91536 (0.59%)
upperalphaspecial: 81044 (0.53%)
specialnum: 66165 (0.43%)
Character set ordering
allstring: 5419270 (35.16%)
othermask: 3833967 (24.87%)
stringdigit: 2622232 (17.01%)
alldigit: 1906165 (12.37%)
stringdigitstring: 478523 (3.1%)
digitstring: 446101 (2.89%)
stringspecial: 184687 (1.2%)
allspecial: 149786 (0.97%)
stringspecialstring: 117368 (0.76%)
digitstringdigit: 114141 (0.74%)
stringspecialdigit: 101918 (0.66%)
specialstring: 25205 (0.16%)
specialstringspecial: 15951 (0.1%)
Some final thoughts
Okay, there is some interesting stuff there and if you are interested in the pieces of the standard pipal report that I didn't include there, I've put the full report up on my handler page. One of the other thing I took a look at was how many in the mix satisfy the standard definition of a "complex" password [lower case, upper case, digits, special characters] (choose 3) and length >= 8. 620413 (4.02%) of the passwords satisfy this definition of complex. However, when you look at unique passwords, only 1286 (2.75% of the 46840 unique ones) are complex. So, at least one takeaway is that the more complex you make your crucial passwords the less likely you are to fall victim to this type of password guessing attack. Of course, 173 of those 1286 were some variation on 'password' with subsitutions or digits and/or special characters tacked on the end. So, what do you think? Is there some other aspect of the passwords that I should have looked at? Let us know in the comment section below or via our contact form.
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Jim Clausing, GIAC GSE #26
jclausing --at-- isc [dot] sans (dot) edu
The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SANS, the Internet Storm Center, the author's spouse, kids, or pets (except maybe the ornery cat).
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