Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1291 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Microsoft products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and Windows 8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted OpenType font, aka "OpenType Font Parsing Vulnerability" or "Win32k Font Parsing Vulnerability." Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-036 "How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability? There are multiple means that could allow an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability and then convince a user to view the website. An attacker would have no way to force users to view the attacker-controlled content. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to take action, typically by getting them to click a link in an email message or in an Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's website, or by opening an attachment sent through email. In a file sharing attack scenario, an attacker could provide a specially crafted document that is designed to exploit this vulnerability, and then convince a user to open the document. In a local attack scenario, an attacker could also exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application. However, the attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability in this scenario."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 7 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Msbulletin
| bulletin_id | MS13-036 |
| bulletin_url | |
| date | 2013-04-09T00:00:00 |
| impact | Elevation of Privilege |
| knowledgebase_id | 2829996 |
| knowledgebase_url | |
| severity | Important |
| title | Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege |
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
| NASL id | SMB_NT_MS13-036.NASL |
| description | The Windows kernel on the remote host has the following vulnerabilities : - Multiple race condition vulnerabilities exist. (CVE-2013-1283, CVE-2013-1292) - A font parsing vulnerability exists. (CVE-2013-1291) - An NTFS NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists. (CVE-2013-1293) A local attacker could exploit any of these vulnerabilities to elevate privileges. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 65883 |
| published | 2013-04-10 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65883 |
| title | MS13-036: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2829996) |
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Oval
| accepted | 2014-03-03T04:00:55.696-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and Windows 8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted OpenType font, aka "OpenType Font Parsing Vulnerability" or "Win32k Font Parsing Vulnerability." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16504 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2013-04-10T11:39:28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | Microsoft Windows Kernel-Mode Driver privilege elevation vulnerability (CVE-2013-1291) - MS13-036 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 78 |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | BUGTRAQ ID: 58853 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2013-1291 Microsoft Windows是微软公司推出的一系列操作系统。 当 Windows 未能处理特制字体文件时，存在一个拒绝服务漏洞。此漏洞可能会导致计算机停止响应和重新启动。 0 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows 7 厂商补丁： Microsoft --------- Microsoft已经为此发布了一个安全公告（MS13-036）以及相应补丁: MS13-036：Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege (2829996) 链接：http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS13-036 |
| id | SSV:60730 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2013-04-11 |
| published | 2013-04-11 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | Microsoft Windows OpenType字体解析远程拒绝服务漏洞(CVE-2013-1291)(MS13-036) |