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Experts disclose technical details of now-patched CVE-2022-37969 Windows Zero-Day

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022

Researchers disclosed details of a now-patched flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-37969, in Windows Common Log File System (CLFS).

The CVE-2022-37969 (CVSS score: 7.8) flaw is a Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. The Common Log File System (CLFS) is a general-purpose logging subsystem that can be used by applications running in both kernel mode and user mode for building high-performance transaction logs, and is implemented in the driver CLFS.sys. Microsoft fixed it with the release of September 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates, the company also states it has been actively exploited in the wild.

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.” reads Microsoft’s advisory. “An attacker must already have access and the ability to run code on the target system. This technique does not allow for remote code execution in cases where the attacker does not already have that ability on the target system.”

Microsoft credited Quan Jin with DBAPPSecurity, Genwei Jiang with Mandiant, FLARE OTF, CrowdStrike, and Zscaler ThreatLabz for reporting this flaw.

Now Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers disclosed details related to the vulnerability. The experts obtained the info by analyzing a zero-day exploit used in the wild.

“On September 2, 2022, Zscaler Threatlabz captured an in-the-wild 0-day exploit in the Windows Common Log File System Driver (CLFS.sys) and reported this discovery to Microsoft.” reads the post published by Zscaler.

“The 0-day exploit can execute the privilege escalation successfully on Windows 10 and Windows 11 prior to the September patch. The cause of the vulnerability is due to the lack of a strict bounds check on the field cbSymbolZone in the Base Record Header for the base log file (BLF) in CLFS.sys. If the field cbSymbolZone is set to an invalid offset, an out-of-bound write will occur at the invalid offset. In this two-part blog series, we will demystify the vulnerability and the 0-day exploit discovered in-the-wild.”

The root cause of the vulnerability is due to the lack of a strict bounds check on the field cbSymbolZone in the Base Record Header for the base log file (BLF) in CLFS.sys.

The researchers explained that a log file is composed of a base log file that contains metadata blocks, and several containers that store the actual data. The AddLogContainer API is used to add a container to the physical log that is associated with the log handle.

The issue can be exploited using a specially crafted base log file, the researchers developed a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) that triggers a “blue screen of death” (BSOD) crash stably.  

“When the field cbSymbolZone is set to an invalid offset, an out-of-bound write at the invalid offset can be triggered. Therefore, the pointer to the CClfsContainer object can be corrupted. When dereferenced, the corrupted pointer to the CClfsContainer object causes a memory violation that triggers a BSOD crash.” concludes the report.

Zscaler has further made available proof-of-concept (PoC) instructions to trigger the security hole, making it essential that users of Windows upgrade to the latest version to mitigate potential threats.

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