Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Microsoft released an out-of-band update to address authentication issues in Windows related to a recently patched Kerberos vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-17049.
“An out-of-band optional update is now available on the Microsoft Update Catalog to address a known issue affecting Kerberos authentication. As part of this issue, ticket renewal and other tasks, such as scheduled tasks and clustering, might fail.” reads the advisory published by the IT giant. “This issue only affects Windows Servers, and Windows 10 devices and applications in enterprise environments.”
The flaw is related to the PerformTicketSignature registry subkey value in CVE-2020-17049, which is a security vulnerability bypass bug in Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) that Microsoft addressed with the release of November 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates.
“A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in the way Key Distribution Center (KDC) determines if a service ticket can be used for delegation via Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD).” reads the advisory published by Microsoft.
“To exploit the vulnerability, a compromised service that is configured to use KCD could tamper with a service ticket that is not valid for delegation to force the KDC to accept it.
Last week, the company disclosed a series of flaws that could occur on writable and read-only domain controllers (DC) such as:
Microsoft recommends installing this optional update on Domain Controllers only if their customers are affected, the company warns of some problems related to the Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) for Japanese or Chinese languages.
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(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft)
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