Zero-day vulnerability in Windows

Tavis Ormandy, a Google security engineer, reported a critical bug to Microsoft only five days before going public.
The vulnerability has being used by Carbanak group.

Advisory: SB2013051701 - Privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows

Vulnerable component: Windows

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3660

CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Description:

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the failure to properly initialize a pointer for the next object in a certain list by the EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec function within kernel-mode driver (win32k.sys). A local attacker can use multiple FlattenPath function calls to obtain write access to the PATHRECORD chain and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

- Microsoft Windows - 'EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec' Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) [Exploit-DB]

- Microsoft Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/7/8 - Local Ring Exploit (EPATHOBJ) [Exploit-DB]

- Microsoft Windows - Win32k!EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec Uninitialized Next Pointer Testcase [Exploit-DB]

External links:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms13-053.aspx
https://labs.bromium.com/2013/10/22/the-latest-tdl4-and-cve-2013-3660-exploit-enhancements/
http://www.malwaredigger.com/2015/05/rovnix-dropper-analysis.html