Microsoft · Netlogon
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC). An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run a specially crafted application on a device on the network. To exploit the vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be required to use MS-NRPC to connect to a domain controller to obtain domain administrator access. Microsoft is addressing the vulnerability in a phased two-part rollout. These updates address the vulnerability by modifying how Netlogon handles the usage of Netlogon secure channels. For guidelines on how to manage the changes required for this vulnerability and more information on the phased rollout, see How to manage the changes in Netlogon secure channel connections associated with CVE-2020-1472 (updated September 28, 2020). When the second phase of Windows updates become available in Q1 2021, customers will be notified via a revision to this security vulnerability. If you wish to be notified when these updates are released, we recommend that you register for the security notifications mailer to be alerted of content changes to this advisory. See Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.
First seen exploited 38 days after disclosure. Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 22 days after disclosure.
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CVE-2020-1472 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Netlogon. After gaining initial access, the actors exploit CVE-2020-1472 to compromise all Active Directory (AD) identity services. Actors have then been observed using legitimate remote access tools, such as VPN and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), to access the environment with the compromised credentials.
CVE-2020-1472, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft’s Netlogon. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to breach unpatched Active Directory domain controllers and obtain domain administrator access.
CVE-2020-1472 is a privilege elevation vulnerability. The immediate effect of successful exploitation results in the ability to authentication to the vulnerable Domain Controller with Domain Administrator level credentials. In compromises exploiting this vulnerability, exploitation was typically followed immediately by dumping all hashes for Domain accounts.
CVE-2020-1472, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft’s Netlogon. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to breach unpatched Active Directory domain controllers and obtain domain administrator access. CVE-2020-1472 has been reported to be exploited by Ransomware groups for initial access.
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Reports are matched by finding the exact id CVE-2020-1472 in their text; nobody has reviewed the match. One passage is shown per report, at most 320 characters, linked to the original.
…keyboard attack via Impacket toolkit Suspicious PowerShell command line Suspicious WMI process creation Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management surfaces devices that may be affected by the following vulnerabilities used in this threat: CVE-2021-26084 CVE-2020-1472…
ET HUNTING Suspicious lsass.exe in URI ET MALWARE Win32/IcedID Request Cookie ET POLICY SSL/TLS Certificate Observed (AnyDesk Remote Desktop Software) ET USER_AGENTS AnyDesk Remote Desktop Software User-Agent ET EXPLOIT Possible Zerologon Phase 1/3 - NetrServerReqChallenge with 0x00 Client Challenge (CVE-2020-1472)
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The attackers were also seen deploying a tool capable of exploiting the ZeroLogon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472).
…second one, labelled with CVE-2020-1472 and known also as ZeroLogon, affects Microsoft’s Active Directory NetLogon remote Protocol (MS-NRPC), and it allows a malicious actor without user credentials to gain the highest privileges in the domain, and take the control of a vulnerable domain controller via NT Lan…
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…injected Cobalt Strike beacon: Bumblebee leveraging WMI to run wab.exe and wabmig.exe with injected floating code as seen in the Cybereason Defense Platform Privilege Escalation and Cobalt Strike deployment Bumblebee performs privilege escalation by loading an exploit for CVE-2020-1472 (Zerologon) into…
Privileges have been escalated using Mimikatz, Rubeus 4, or by exploiting a Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472).
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Pulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.