By James Scout/ Oct 6, 2022
Microsoft has updated the mitigations for the most recent ProxyNotShell zero-day Exchange vulnerabilities, tagged as CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082.
The initial recommendations were insufficient as researchers showed that they could be easily bypassed to allow new attacks exploiting the two bugs.
Unfortunately, the current recommendations are still not enough, and the proposed mitigation can still allow ProxyNotShell attacks.
CVE-2022-41040 is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) that allows privilege escalation and collaborates with CVE-2022-41082 to provide remote code execution on on-premise Exchange server deployments. It was privately reported to Microsoft three weeks ago.
Both security issues come with a high-severity score mainly because exploiting them requires authentication.