Heads up: There’s a working, free (but stunted) BlueKeep exploit making the rounds @ AskWoody

Heads up: There’s a working, free (but stunted) BlueKeep exploit making the rounds

Posted on September 6, 2019 at 13:23 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Remember BlueKeep? That’s the wormable hole in Windows Remote Desktop. We’ve talked about it a lot since it first came up in May.

@NetDef just posted a link to Kevin Beaumont’s tweet:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1170014744176148481

If you haven’t patched since May — or if you’re installing manual, security-only patches and somehow skipped May — get off your duff now.

Details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

UPDATE: Kevin says he wouldn’t call it “defanged” — and he has a good point. I probably should’ve called it “unable to reproduce.” But don’t let that keep you from getting patched.

UPDATE: Good coverage from Catalin Cimpanu at ZDnet.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The released exploit “only works against 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, but not the other Windows versions that were also vulnerable to BlueKeep,” per Cimpanu.

ANOTHER UPDATE: From Kevin

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1170051213825646595

Windows Patches/Security BlueKeep

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