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A "By-design flaw" uncovered in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, move laterally in the environment, and even execute remote code. "It is possible to abuse and leverage Microsoft Storage Accounts by manipulating Azure Functions to steal access-tokens of higher privilege identities, move laterally, potentially access critical business assets, and execute remote code," Orca said in a new report shared with The Hacker News.
Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service that exposed several "High-impact" applications to unauthorized access. "One of these apps is a content management system that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but also launch high-impact XSS attacks on Bing users," cloud security firm Wiz said in a report.
A misconfiguration in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory could have allowed miscreants to subvert Microsoft's Bing search engine - even changing search results. The team "Spotted several" of these misconfigured apps, including one called Bing Trivia.
Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-23383, the issue has been dubbed "Super FabriXss" by Orca Security, a nod to the FabriXss flaw that was fixed by Microsoft in October 2022.
Bringing your own WordPress installation to Azure still requires managing and patching the underlying OS and the CMS application, as you're treating Azure as just another host for virtual machines. WordPress is, at heart, a Hypertext Preprocessor application, and you should remember that the only supported PHP on Azure is the one running on Azure App Service for Linux.
A hole in a Department of Defense email server operated by Microsoft left more than a terabyte of sensitive data exposed less than a month after Office 365 was awarded a higher level of US government security accreditation. According to security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the issue and shared it, the openly accessible server was part of an internal mailbox system hosted on Azure Government Cloud and used by the DoD for a variety of purposes - including the processing of security clearance paperwork.
A new critical remote code execution flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. "By abusing the vulnerability, attackers can deploy malicious ZIP files containing a payload to the victim's Azure application."
Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December 2, 2022 in Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins, have since been addressed by Microsoft.
Kali Linux images for Azure, QEMU. Kali Linux is now available in the Azure Marketplace, allowing you to deploy the image and perform penetration testing from the cloud. In reality, Kali Linux 2022.3 made it to Azure first, with the team tweeting its addition on August 30th, after 2022.3 was already released.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it addressed an authentication bypass vulnerability in Jupyter Notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB that enabled full read and write access. The tech giant said the problem was introduced on August 12, 2022, and rectified worldwide on October 6, 2022, two days after responsible disclosure from Orca Security, which dubbed the flaw CosMiss. "In short, if an attacker had knowledge of a Notebook's 'forwardingId,' which is the UUID of the Notebook Workspace, they would have had full permissions on the Notebook without having to authenticate, including read and write access, and the ability to modify the file system of the container running the notebook," researchers Lidor Ben Shitrit and Roee Sagi said.