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Top MSRC 2020 Q2 Security Researchers Announced – Congratulations!

We are excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Second Quarter (Q2)! Congratulations to all the researchers who continue to rock the leaderboard, and a big thank you to everyone for your contribution to securing our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of the 2020

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CVE-2020-1147

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file input, aka '.NET Framework, SharePoint Server, and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.

CVE-2020-15074: Access Server Release Notes | OpenVPN

OpenVPN Access Server older than version 2.8.4 and version 2.9.5 generates new user authentication tokens instead of reusing exiting tokens on reconnect making it possible to circumvent the initial token expiry timestamp.

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 Windows Server versions.

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 Windows Server versions.

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 previous blog post.

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 previous blog post.

CVE-2020-15306: openexr/CHANGES.md at main · AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr

An issue was discovered in OpenEXR before v2.5.2. Invalid chunkCount attributes could cause a heap buffer overflow in getChunkOffsetTableSize() in IlmImf/ImfMisc.cpp.

CVE-2020-13162: Pulse Secure Client for Windows <9.1.6 TOCTOU Privilege Escalation (CVE-2020-13162) - Red Timmy Security

A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability in PulseSecureService.exe in Pulse Secure Client versions prior to 9.1.6 down to 5.3 R70 for Windows (which runs as NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM) allows unprivileged users to run a Microsoft Installer executable with elevated privileges.

CVE-2020-13223: HashiCorp Blog: Vault

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise logged proxy environment variables that potentially included sensitive credentials. Fixed in 1.3.6 and 1.4.2.