This article purposes a new attack model to hijack TCP/IP broadcast protocol across different network segment, named “BadTunnel”.

Memory Read / Write / Execute attributes are one of the most important part of system security. Usually it is mandatory to have writable attribute set before overwriting a block of memory, and executable attribute set before executing code in a block of memory, otherwise an exception is generated. However, there are some special cases in the Windows exception handling procedure that we can take advantage of. By abusing such exceptions, we could write to the unwritable, and execute the unexecutable.

This post is initially inspired by a talk with @TK, during which I learned the process and detail on how to successfully bypass CFG (reference: use Chakra JIT to bypass DEP and CFG). Due to my interest in its technology, I spent some time reading related materials and found another position to bypass CFG. I would like to thanks @TK for enlightening me on the ideas and techniques mentioned in this post.

There is a kind of vulnerability that uses the flaw of whitelist applications in ElevationPolicy settings to accomplish sandbox bypass. A DragDrop policy setting similar to ElevationPolicy in the IE registry attracts our attention. In this post, the writer will try every possible means to break IE sandbox from the perspective of an attacker by analyzing all obstacles ahead to detail the drag drop security policy of IE sandbox.

JIT Spray is a popular exploitation technique first appeared in 2010. It embeds shellcode as immediate value into the executable code the JIT compiler generates. Currently, all major JIT engine, including Chakra, already have many mitigations in place against this technique, such as random NOP instruction insertion, constant blinding, etc.

This article points out two weaknesses in Chakra’s JIT Spray mitigation (in Windows 8.1 and older operating systems, and Windows 10, respectively), allowing attackers to use JIT Spray to execute shellcode, bypassing DEP. I will also discuss a method to bypass CFG using Chakra’s JIT compiler.

The WormHole vulnerability that recently has raised security concerns actually comes from a series of inappropriate developing habits. Similar problems are very common on PC, but most of them are mitigated by Microsoft’s default firewall. I wish this post with a lot of discussion on WormHole could more or less enhance the security awareness of some developers.

James Forshaw reported a vulnerability to Microsoft regarding Windows Audio Service in November 2014. In our analysis, we discovered that the patch Microsoft release later did not completely solve the problem. With a combination of techniques, we successfully bypassed the patch and can exploit the vulnerability on patched system.

RowHammer is a problem with some DDR3 in which repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows. However it need to run the customized asm code on target machine to trigger RowHammer, so RowHammer is not easy to be used to attack. We have an idea that try to use script language to trigger RowHammer. If it works, RowHammer will be more dangerous. In order to verify our idea, we analyzed the Java Hotspot, Chrome V8, .NET CoreCLR and Firefox SpiderMonfey.