CVE-2022-26809

We provide an overview of CVE-2022-26809, CVE-2022-26923 and CVE-2022-26925, along with recommendations for mitigation.

For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 30th May, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. Top Attacks and Breaches Check Point Research reported how the Conti ransom group has taken cybercrime to a new, geopolitical level. They intervene in the internal politics of Costa Rica, the relationship between Costa Rica and […]

Researchers have spotted fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits that appear to have been created by threat actors in an effort to deliver malware to members of the cybersecurity community.

Researchers uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community with fake Proof Of Concept to deliver a Cobalt Strike beacon. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community. The expert discovered a post where a researcher were sharing a fake Proof of Concept (POC) exploit code for an RPC Runtime Library […]

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-day reported by the NSA (CVE-2022-24521) On this April 2022 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released patches for 128 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including one zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-24521) and another (CVE-2022-26904) for which there’s already a PoC and a Metasploit module. Critical Microsoft RPC runtime bug: No PoC exploit yet, but patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-26809) Since Microsoft’s latest … More →

Three days have passed since Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday, and CVE-2022-26809 has emerged as the vulnerability with the most exploitation potential. It’s easy to see why: it may be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to breach systems and by attackers that already have access to a system and want to hop on others on the same network. It can also be exploited without the vulnerable system’s user doing anything at all (aka “zero-click” exploitation). About … More →

Among the over 100 vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft this week during its monthly patch cycle is one that has the security community very worried. It’s a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability located in the Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) runtime. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-26809, can be exploited over the network with no user […]

Microsoft Partch Tuesday security updates for April 2022 fixed 128 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day reported by NSA. Microsoft Partch Tuesday security updates for April 2022 fixed 128 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including Microsoft Windows and Windows Components, Microsoft Defender and Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Exchange Server, Office and Office […]

On this April 2022 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released patches for 128 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including one zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-24521) and another (CVE-2022-26904) for which there’s already a PoC and a Metasploit module. Vulnerabilities of note CVE-2022-24521 is a vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System Driver that was reported to Microsoft by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Adam Podlosky and Amir Bazine of Crowdstrike. “Since CVE-2022-24521 only allows a privilege … More →

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a warning for an in-the-wild zero-day attack hitting Windows users and raised eyebrows when it credited the U.S. government National Security Agency (NSA) with reporting the live exploitation.