Microsoft Office 2003/Sp3/Xp Web Components code injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Office 2003/Sp3/Xp (Office Suite Software) and classified as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Web Components. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Microsoft Office Web Components Spreadsheet ActiveX control (aka OWC10 or OWC11), as distributed in Office XP SP3 and Office 2003 SP3, Office XP Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 SP3 and 2006 Gold and SP1, and Office Small Business Accounting 2006, when used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted call to the msDataSourceObject method, as exploited in the wild in July and August 2009, aka "Office Web Components HTML Script Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 07/13/2009 by Peter Vreugdenhil with Microsoft as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at microsoft.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-1136 since 03/25/2009. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/17/2021). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

It is possible to download the exploit at xeye.us. It is declared as highly functional. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 39783 (MS09-043: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution (973472)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110101 (Microsoft Office Web Components Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS09-043)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8322.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (51452) and Tenable (39783). Similar entries are available at 49395, 49390 and 49389.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 39783
Nessus Name: MS09-043: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution (973472)
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OpenVAS ID: 800845
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Web Components ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability
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Saint ID: exploit_info/ms_office_web_components_spreadsheet_eval
Saint Name: Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet Evaluate method vulnerability

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MetaSploit ID: ms09_043_owc_msdso.rb
MetaSploit Name: Microsoft OWC Spreadsheet msDataSourceObject Memory Corruption
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Patch: microsoft.com
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: microsoft.com
Researcher: Peter Vreugdenhil
Organization: Microsoft
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CVE: CVE-2009-1136 (🔍)
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X-Force: 51452
Vulnerability Center: 22820 - [MS09-043] Microsoft Office Web Components HTML Script Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35642 - Microsoft Office Web Components ActiveX Control 'msDataSourceObject()' Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 35800 - Microsoft Office Web Components Multiple Vulnerabilities, Extremely Critical
OSVDB: 55806 - Microsoft Office Web Components OWC10.Spreadsheet ActiveX msDataSourceObject() Method Memory Corruption

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 07/20/2009 09:10
Updated: 03/17/2021 11:32
Changes: 07/20/2009 09:10 (103), 02/11/2017 10:30 (13), 03/17/2021 11:32 (3)
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