Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)

CVE-2023-23397 Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)

Microsoft addresses 76 CVEs including two zero-days exploited in the wild, one of which was publicly disclosed.

9Critical
66Important
1Moderate
0Low

Microsoft patched 76 CVEs in its March 2023 Patch Tuesday Release, with nine rated as critical, 66 rated as important and one rated as moderate. This CVE count includes two CVEs (CVE-2023-1017 and CVE-2023-1018) in the third party Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) Library.

This month’s update includes patches for:

Azure
Client Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS)
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
Microsoft Bluetooth Driver
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
Microsoft Graphics Component
Microsoft Office Excel
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office SharePoint
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft PostScript Printer Driver
Microsoft Printer Drivers
Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
Office for Android
Remote Access Service Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
Role: DNS Server
Role: Windows Hyper-V
Service Fabric
Visual Studio
Windows Accounts Control
Windows Bluetooth Service
Windows Central Resource Manager
Windows Cryptographic Services
Windows Defender
Windows HTTP Protocol Stack
Windows HTTP.sys
Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol
Windows Kernel
Windows Partition Management Driver
Windows Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE)
Windows Remote Procedure Call
Windows Remote Procedure Call Runtime
Windows Resilient File System (ReFS)
Windows Secure Channel
Windows SmartScreen
Windows TPM
Windows Win32K

Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities accounted for 32.9% of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities at 26.3%.

Critical

CVE-2023-23397 | Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23397 is a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and was exploited in the wild. The vulnerability can be exploited by sending a malicious email to a vulnerable version of Outlook. When the email is processed by the server, a connection to an attacker-controlled device can be established in order to leak the Net-NTLMv2 hash of the email recipient. The attacker can use this hash to authenticate as the victim recipient in an NTLM relay attack. Microsoft notes that this exploitation can occur before the email is viewed in the Preview Pane, meaning no interaction from the victim recipient is needed for a successful attack.

The discovery of this vulnerability is credited to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) and Microsoft research teams.

Moderate

CVE-2023-24880 | Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2023-24880 is a Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass vulnerability in Windows operating systems that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 5.4. The vulnerability has been publicly disclosed and was exploited in the wild. To be exploited, a malicious file needs to be opened by a user on an affected version of Windows. When the email is opened, the Mark of the Web (MoTW) functionality is bypassed, meaning that security features that rely on MoTW tagging are not triggered and could allow for malicious payloads within the file to be executed on the target.

Critical

CVE-2023-23416 | Windows Cryptographic Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23416 is a RCE vulnerability in Windows operating systems that was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.4. The vulnerability exists in Windows Cryptographic Services, a suite of cryptographic tools in Windows operating systems. Exploitation is performed by importing a malicious certificate onto a vulnerable target, requiring the attacker to authenticate to the target or entice an authenticated user into importing the malicious certificate. CVE-2023-23416 was given a rating of “Exploitation More Likely” using the Microsoft Exploitability Index.

Critical

CVE-2023-23416 | Windows Cryptographic Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23415 | Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23415 is a RCE vulnerability in Windows operating systems and was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8. The vulnerability lies in the way the operating system handles ICMP packets when an application running on the vulnerable Windows host is bound to a raw socket. Exploitation is performed by sending a malicious fragmented IP packet to a vulnerable target, leading to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-23415 was given a rating of “Exploitation More Likely” using the Microsoft Exploitability Index.

Critical

CVE-2023-23392 | HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23392 is a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft operating systems that was given a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and rated as “Exploitation More Likely.” The vulnerability exists in the HTTP. sys component of Windows operating systems. Exploitation can be performed by a remote, unauthenticated attacker sending a malicious packet to the target server. For a server to be vulnerable, it must have HTTP/3 enabled and use buffered I/O. The Microsoft advisory notes that HTTP/3 support is a new feature for Windows Server 2022 and must be enabled with a registry key.

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Users can create scans that focus specifically on our Patch Tuesday plugins. From a new advanced scan, in the plugins tab, set an advanced filter for Plugin Name contains March 2023.

With that filter set, click the plugin families to the left and enable each plugin that appears on the right side. Note: If your families on the left say Enabled, then all the plugins in that family are set. Disable the whole family before selecting the individual plugins for this scan. Here’s an example from Tenable.io:

A list of all the plugins released for Tenable’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday update can be found here. As always, we recommend patching systems as soon as possible and regularly scanning your environment to identify those systems yet to be patched.

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