A Mirage of Safety: Bug Finding and Exploit Techniques of Top Android Vendor's Privacy Protection Apps

Author: Xiangqian Zhang, Huiming Liu of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

0x0 Introduction

In this blog, we will detail our research on Android privacy protection apps. We investigated the privacy protection applications provided by the top five Android vendors and found that many applications do not protect our privacy well.

We proposed three threat models based on our research. And we will show four attack examples for the privacy protection applications.

CVE-2020-9971 Abusing XPC Service mechanism to elevate privilege in macOS/iOS

Author: Zhipeng Huo(@R3dF09) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

0x0 Introduction

In this blog, I will detail an interesting logic vulnerability I found in launchd process when it is managing the XPC Services. It’s easy be exploited and 100% stable to get high privilege in macOS/iOS. Because launchd is the most fundamental and important component in the OS, the vulnerability would also work even from the most restricted app sandbox. The vulnerability should work before macOS Big Sur and iOS 13.5.

Deep Analysis of CVE-2019-8014: The Vulnerability Ignored 6 Years Ago

This post provides detailed analysis for CVE-2019-8014 which was fixed in Adobe Acrobat Reader / Pro DC recently. Interestingly, it’s a patch bypass of CVE-2013-2729 which was fixed six years ago. This post also discusses how to exploit the vulnerability.

Author: Ke Liu of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

Investigating WinRAR Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2018-20250) at Internet Scale

Authors: lywang, dannywei

0x00 Background

As one of the most popular archiving software, WinRAR supports compress and decompress of multiple file archive formats. Check Point security researcher Nadav Grossman recently discovered a series of security vulnerabilities he found in WinRAR, with most powerful one being a remote code execution vulnerability in ACE archive decompression module (CVE-2018-20250).
To support decompression of ACE archives, WinRAR integrated a 19-year-old dynamic link library unacev2.dll, which never updated since 2006, nor does it enable any kind of exploit mitigation technologies. Nadav Grossman uncovered a dictionary traversal bug in unacev2.dll, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or leak Net-NTLM hashes.

Spoof All Domains Containing 'd' in Apple Products [CVE-2018-4277]

During this time I have been researching security issues on the browser front end, and I have found dozens of vulnerabilities in browsers such as Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Unicode visual security and IDN homograph attack have also been the subject of my research.

Pwning PHP developers

TL;DR
A php programmer who use xdebug’s remote debugging feature may affects RCE when he just access to attacker’s website in modern browsers.

Return Flow Guard

[DannyWei, lywang, FlowerCode] of Tencent Xuanwu Lab

Here is a preliminary documentation of the RFG implementation. We will update it once we have new findings and corrections.

We analyzed the Return Flow Guard introduced in Windows 10 Redstone 2 14942, released on October 7, 2016.

CVE-2016-1707 Chrome Address Bar URL Spoofing on IOS

Address Bar URL Spoofing on IOS Chrome (CVE-2016-1707), I report the vulnerability to Google in June 2016. Spoofing URL vulnerability can be forged a legitimate Web site address. Attacker can exploit this vulnerability to launch phishing attack.