Pwn2Own 2013 -Hack Major Browser, Adobe Reader, Flash or Java & Earn in Million Dollars

Pwn2Own 2013 -Hack Major Web-browser, Adobe Reader, Flash or Java & Earn in Million Dollars 

Since the last two years the Pwn2Own hacker contest has become an important fixture in the world of testing the security of software applications, operating systems and hardware devices. In last two years we have seen several hackers, security professionals have expressed their enthusiasm and joined Pwn2Own where four major and widely browser's security get compromised, in order to make applications, software more safe and secure. Last year we have reported how different hackers across the globe taken part in Pwn2Own and successfully hacked Google Chrome, IE & Firefox, and earned millions of dollars. But the contest of this year has some more twist than before as, HP TippingPoint and Google, sponsor of Pwn2Own, has made clear that it is expanding the focus of the competition beyond browsers. Also, Pwn2own 2013 will include $560,000 in prize money for demonstrations of exploits in the major web browsers, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash or Oracle Java. 

Contest Dates:-

The contest will take place the 6th, 7th, and 8th of March in Vancouver, British Columbia during the CanSecWest 2013 conference. DVLabs blog post will be updated as the contest plays out and get real-time updates by following either @thezdi or @Pwn2Own_Contest on Twitter or search for the hash tag #pwn2own.

Rules & Prizes:-

HP ZDI is offering more than half a million dollars (USD) in cash and prizes during the competition for vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques in the below categories. The first contestant to successfully compromise a selected target will win the prizes for the category.

• Web Browser
• Google Chrome on Windows 7 ($100,000)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, either
• IE 10 on Windows 8 ($100,000), or
• IE 9 on Windows 7 ($75,000)
• Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 ($60,000)
• Apple Safari on OS X Mountain Lion ($65,000)
• Web Browser Plug-ins using Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7
• Adobe Reader XI ($70,000)
• Adobe Flash ($70,000)
• Oracle Java ($20,000)

The targets will be running on the latest, fully patched version of the Windows 7, 8, and OS X Mountain Lion. All targets will be installed in their default configurations, as this is how a majority of users will have them configured. As always, the vulnerabilities utilized in the attack must be unknown and not previously reported to the vendor. If a sandbox is present, a full sandbox escape is required to win. A given vulnerability may only be used once across all categories.

Upon successful demonstration of the exploit, the contestant will provide HP ZDI a fully functioning exploit and all the details of the vulnerability used in the attack. In the case that multiple vulnerabilities were exploited to gain code execution, details about all the vulnerabilities (memory corruption, infoleaks, escalations, etc.) leveraged and the sequence in which they are used must be provided to receive the prize money. The initial vulnerability utilized in the attack must be in the registered category.

Along with prize money, the contestant will receive the compromised laptop and 20,000 ZDI reward points* which immediately qualifies them for Silver standing. 

Full contest rules can be found at http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/Pwn2OwnContestRules.html, and may be changed at any time without notice.

Registration:-

Contestants are asked to pre-register by contacting ZDI via e-mail at zdi@hp.com. This will allow the organizer to ensure that they have the necessary resources in place to facilitate the attack. If more than one contestant registers for a given category, the order of the contestants will be drawn at random.

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Pwn2Own 2013 Result: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Adobe Reader, Flash & Java Owned

Pwn2Own 2013 Result: Chrome, Firefox, IE, Adobe Reader, Flash & Java Owned Only Safari Survived 

Couple of months ago we have talked about 'Pwn2Own 2013' hacking contest sponsored by HP TippingPoint, ZDI and Google where the most famous and widely used browsers have to face challenges. Now the result of this long awaited security competition has came which is showing that the entire browser security landscape can change in a single day, as browsers thought to be secure are proven to be otherwise. Of the Big Four browsers, only Apple's Safari has so far survived the onslaught of the browser-breakers where Chrome, Internet Explorer 10 and Firefox all fell to the mercy of the hackers. Not only browsers but also three other popular applications that is Adobe Reader, Flash Player and yet again Java fallen victim to hackers at 'Pwn2Own'. And for Java it was a true disaster as Java fell three times, though under the contest rules, only the first attacker was due to win the $20,000 prize. Vupen, a renowned security research firm based in France, cracked both Firefox and Internet Explorer. It roughly explained the attack in a tweet, “We’ve pwned Firefox using a use-after-free and a brand new technique to bypass ASLR/DEP on Win7 without the need of any ROP.” This bug hint leads them winning $100,000 for finding a huge hole. Again in a tweet, Security firm Vupen explained “We’ve pwned MS Surface Pro with two IE10 zero-days to achieve a full Windows 8 compromise with sandbox bypass.” Lastly, U.K.-based security firm MWR Labs cracked Chrome and also gained full control of the operating system, this time Windows 7. It also “demonstrated a full sandbox bypass exploit.” The company explained in a blog post that it found a zero-day in Chrome “running on a modern Windows-based laptop.” It was able to exploit the vulnerability by performing a very similar attack to what took down Facebook, Microsoft, and a number of other well-known companies: It had the laptop visit a malicious website. 

Now lets take look at the final score board of Pwn2Own 2013:

Wednesday:
1:30 - Java (James Forshaw) PWNED
2:30 - Java (Joshua Drake) PWNED
3:30 - IE 10 (VUPEN Security) PWNED
4:30 - Chrome (Nils & Jon) PWNED
5:30 - Firefox (VUPEN Security) PWNED
5:31 - Java (VUPEN Security) PWNED

Thursday:
12pm - Flash (VUPEN Security) PWNED
1pm - Adobe Reader (George Hotz) PWNED
2pm - Java (Ben Murphy via proxy) PWNED

The total damage to the prize fund comes out at a whopping $480k. With HP's announcement that everyone will get paid for each attack, the prize monies will be divvied up as follows:-

1. James Forshaw: Java = $20K
2. Joshua Drake: Java = $20k
3. VUPEN Security: IE10 + Firefox + Java + Flash = $250k
4. Nils & Jon: Chrome = $100k
5. George Hotz: Adobe Reader = $70k
6. Ben Murphy: Java = $20k

As you all know that the main motive of these contest is to make applications, software more safe and secure while figuring out hidden vulnerabilities  Here also for Pwn2Own the security holes figured out by the above experts have already been submitted and taken carefully by those organization  along with that, the expected patch for the browsers have already been released. Those who are still using the older version of those above applications are requested to update their system. So, stay tuned with VOGH and be safe on the Internet. 

-Source (HP, Naked Security) 

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Microsoft Security Bulletin (March 2012) Closed Critical RDP Security Hole

Microsoft Security Bulletin (March 2012) Closed Critical RDP Security Hole 

Microsoft released March 2012 Security bulletins to close a total of seven security holes in its products. Among them one Critical-class, four Important and one Moderate – addressing seven issues in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. According to Microsoft (MS12-020) remote code execution vulnerability has been found in RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).

The first of these is a "critical-class" issue in RDP that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on a victim's system. Although RDP is disabled by default, many users enable it so they can administer their systems remotely within their organizations or over the Internet. All supported versions of Windows from Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are affected. As the issue was reported to company by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), Microsoft says that it has yet to see any active attacks exploiting these in the wild, but warns that, "due to the attractiveness of this vulnerability to attackers", it anticipates "that an exploit for code execution will be developed in the next 30 days". Because of this it recommends that installing the updates should be made a priority. 

Microsoft has also provided a workaround and a no-reboot "Fix it" tool that enables Network-Level Authentication (NLA) to mitigate the problem. A second "moderate-class" denial-of-service (DoS) which can cripple an RDP server was also fixed.

A brief overview of all of these updates, including descriptions about each of the vulnerabilities, can be found in Microsoft's Security Bulletin Summary for March 2012.

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Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in The Server Monitoring Software of HP

Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in The Server Monitoring Software of HP

After the massacre of HP LaserJet Printers yet again another product of HP (server monitoring software) has been infected with zero-day vulnerability. Hewlett-Packard have already issued a security warning to its customers about two security vulnerabilities in its Operations Agent server monitoring software. The vulnerabilities were reported to HP by Luigi Auriemma via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). According to the company, unspecified errors in the enterprise software for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows can be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a vulnerable system and execute arbitrary code. Both of these errors have a CVSS 2.0 (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) base score of 10.0, the highest.

Versions prior to 11.03.12 on all supported platforms are affected; upgrading to 11.03.12 corrects the problems. A full list of affected versions, and patch download information can be found in the company's security advisory. HP advises all administrators to install the patches as soon as possible. 

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Metasploit declared $5,000.00, in 5 weeks for exploits Bug Bounty program

If you've got a way to crack Google Chrome, the Metasploit team wants to pay you for it. Today Rapid 7 announced that it has a total of $5000 in cash to reward to contributors who send in exploits for its Top 5 or Top 25 vulnerability lists. The exploits have to be submitted, and accepted, as modules under its standard Metasploit Framework license. 

Cash for bugs is a controversial but common way for security firms to encourage hackers to send exploits to the white hats. As far as Bug Bounty programs go, Metasploit's program is meager. But for an open source program that relies on contributions sent in for free, it's an interesting experiment. The program will end quickly, lasting only five weeks (July 20). One fun thing that the team is doing is letting people stake a claim to their exploit of choice from their Top 5 (prize is $500) or Top 25 (prize is $100) lists. After claiming an exploit, hackers get a week to submit their Metasploit module for their chosen bug. The prize money will "only be paid out to the first module contributor for a given vulnerability," the Metasploit team says.

And guess what? Denial of Service exploits won't qualify. Metasploit wants your bug to be able to do more than that. It should also bypass ASLR/DEP when applicable and be geared toward English-based targets. Metasploit wants hackers to follow its hacking guidelines and they cannot be residents of a US embargoed country.

All accepted submissions will not only win a bit of cash but their submissions will be made available to other Metasploit users, again under the Metasploit Framework license (3-clause BSD).

As I look at the list of 30 possible exploits while writing this blog post, I see that only two have been claimed so far. CVE/ZDI 2011-1218, Lotus Notes - Autonomy Keyview(.zip attachment), and an exploit not listed in the CVE database, known as " DATAC RealWin On_FC_CONNECT_FCS_LOGIN packet containing a long username." So plenty of room for participants remains.

The cash-for-bugs program is interesting, but the list of vulnerabilities for which Metasploit is seeking help is even more so.

The Top 5 are for specific holes in ...

1. Google Chrome (before 11.0.696.71)
2. Lotus Note
3. IBM Tivoli Directory Server
4. DNS
5. GDI

In the Top 25, the entries on the list that caught my eye include holes in JScript, VBScript Scripting Engines, JBOS, Oracle VM and Citrix, among others. (Yes, browsers are in there, too, including Firefox, Chrome and Opera).

Of course, if you do have a killer bug, particularly for some of the browsers like Firefox or Chrome you can perhaps earn more than $100 for it. Mozilla's Bug Bounty program pays up to $3000 cash reward and you get a Mozilla T-shirt. For web applications or services related security bugs, Mozilla pays from $500 to $3,000. In January, Google plunked out what was then a record reward, $3,133, to a hacker for reporting a flaw Chrome. (Google raised its bug bounty fee about a year ago, from $1,337 after Mozilla bumped up its reward rate to $3,000).

TippingPoint, known as one of the founders of the bug bounty concept, not only pays cash (as much as $5,000 for your zero-day), but it also awards bonus points in a scheme more complicated than an airline mileage rewards program. Participants earn points for referring others into the program, for each zero-day they submit and so on. These points gain you bonuses for your hacks, and other goodies like all-expense-paid trips to hacker conferences like Black Hat.

Who knew hacking could be so rewarding?

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