Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-3918 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
The InformationCardSigninHelper Class ActiveX control in icardie.dll in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted web page that is accessed by Internet Explorer, as exploited in the wild in November 2013, aka "InformationCardSigninHelper Vulnerability."
Vulnerable Configurations
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.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft Internet Explorer - CardSpaceClaimCollection ActiveX Integer Underflow (MS13-090). CVE-2013-3918. Remote exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:29857 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2013-11-27 |
| published | 2013-11-27 |
| reporter | metasploit |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/29857/ |
| title | Microsoft Internet Explorer - CardSpaceClaimCollection ActiveX Integer Underflow MS13-090 |
Metasploit
| description | This module exploits a vulnerability on the CardSpaceClaimCollection class from the icardie.dll ActiveX control. The vulnerability exists while the handling of the CardSpaceClaimCollection object. CardSpaceClaimCollections stores a collection of elements on a SafeArray and keeps a size field, counting the number of elements on the collection. By calling the remove() method on an empty CardSpaceClaimCollection it is possible to underflow the length field, storing a negative integer. Later, a call to the add() method will use the corrupted length field to compute the address where write into the SafeArray data, allowing to corrupt memory with a pointer to controlled contents. This module achieves code execution by using VBScript as discovered in the wild on November 2013 to (1) create an array of html OBJECT elements, (2) create holes, (3) create a CardSpaceClaimCollection whose SafeArray data will reuse one of the holes, (4) corrupt one of the legit OBJECT elements with the described integer overflow and (5) achieve code execution by forcing the use of the corrupted OBJECT. |
| id | MSF:EXPLOIT/WINDOWS/BROWSER/MS13_090_CARDSPACESIGNINHELPER |
| last seen | 2020-06-07 |
| modified | 2017-07-24 |
| published | 2013-11-15 |
| references | |
| reporter | Rapid7 |
| source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/windows/browser/ms13_090_cardspacesigninhelper.rb |
| title | MS13-090 CardSpaceClaimCollection ActiveX Integer Underflow |
Msbulletin
| bulletin_id | MS13-090 |
| bulletin_url | |
| date | 2013-11-12T00:00:00 |
| impact | Remote Code Execution |
| knowledgebase_id | 2900986 |
| knowledgebase_url | |
| severity | Critical |
| title | Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits |
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
| NASL id | SMB_NT_MS13-090.NASL |
| description | The remote Windows host is missing a security update that sets kill bits to prevent Microsoft |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 70848 |
| published | 2013-11-13 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70848 |
| title | MS13-090: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2900986) |
| code | |
Oval
| accepted | 2013-12-30T04:00:19.611-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| contributors |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| definition_extensions |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| description | The InformationCardSigninHelper Class ActiveX control in icardie.dll in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted web page that is accessed by Internet Explorer, as exploited in the wild in November 2013, aka "InformationCardSigninHelper Vulnerability." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19089 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2013-11-15T12:46:43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | InformationCardSigninHelper Vulnerability (CVE-2013-3918) - MS13-090 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 26 |
Packetstorm
| data source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/124183/ms13_090_cardspacesigninhelper.rb.txt |
| id | PACKETSTORM:124183 |
| last seen | 2016-12-05 |
| published | 2013-11-26 |
| reporter | juan vazquez |
| source | https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124183/MS13-090-CardSpaceClaimCollection-ActiveX-Integer-Underflow.html |
| title | MS13-090 CardSpaceClaimCollection ActiveX Integer Underflow |
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2013/11/11/activex-control-issue-being-addressed-in-update-tuesday.aspx
- http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/new-ie-vulnerability-found-in-the-wild-s/240163814/
- http://www.fireeye.com/blog/technical/2013/11/new-ie-zero-day-found-in-watering-hole-attack.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-317A
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-090
- https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/16985
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19089