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Oracle addresses 186 CVEs in its first quarterly update of 2025 with 318 patches, including 30 critical updates.

Background

On January 21, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2025, the first quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 186 CVEs in 318 security updates across 27 Oracle product families. Out of the 318 security updates published this quarter, 9.4% of patches were assigned a critical severity. Medium severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 56.6%, followed by high severity patches at 32.4%.

This quarter’s update includes 30 critical patches across 18 CVEs.

SeverityIssues PatchedCVEsCritical3018High10355Medium180109Low54Total318186Analysis

This quarter, the Oracle REST Data Services product family contained the highest number of patches at 85, accounting for 26.7% of the total patches, followed by Oracle Health Sciences Applications at 39 patches, which accounted for 12.3% of the total patches.

A full breakdown of the patches for this quarter can be seen in the following table, which also includes a count of vulnerabilities that can be exploited over a network without authentication.

Oracle Product FamilyNumber of PatchesRemote Exploit without AuthOracle REST Data Services8559Oracle Health Sciences Applications394Oracle Communications Applications3124Oracle Graph Server and Client2815Oracle Construction and Engineering2621Oracle Analytics2314Oracle Communications2218Oracle Hospitality Applications166Oracle Java SE63Oracle MySQL64Oracle Database Server52Oracle Secure Backup41Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database41Oracle Commerce33Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph20Oracle E-Business Suite21Oracle Financial Services Applications20Oracle Fusion Middleware21Oracle Hyperion22Oracle Insurance Applications21Oracle PeopleSoft20Oracle Application Express10Oracle Blockchain Platform11Oracle Essbase11Oracle GoldenGate11Oracle Enterprise Manager11Oracle JD Edwards10Solution

Customers are advised to apply all relevant patches in this quarter’s CPU. Please refer to the January 2025 advisory for full details.

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Now that we know how to add credentials to an on-premises user, lets pose a question:

“Given access to a sync account in Domain A, can we add credentials to a user in another domain within the same Entra tenant?”

This is a bit of a tall order assuming we have very few privileges in Entra itself. Remember from Part 1 that the only thing we can sync down, by default, is the msDS-KeyCredentialLink property. In order to understand how to take advantage of this, we need to learn some more fundamentals of the Entra sync engine and how the rules work:

Rule Intro

We have yet to look at a concrete rule, so let’s look at the first rule defined in the Rules Editor.

Note that the direction is not shown here, but I am showing the inbound rules in the sync rules editor. The direction is in the XML definition. The “Connected System” is the connector space that the source object is coming from (in this case, hybrid.hotnops.com). Since the AD object is a user, the connector space object is “user” and the user representation in the metaverse is called a “person”. The link type of “Provision” is saying “create a metaverse object if one does not exist yet”. In sum, this rule is telling the sync engine to create a metaverse object for any user in the connector space. Remember the connector is responsible for enumerating LDAP and populating all AD users into the connector space.

Next, the scoping filter sets which objects are to be provisioned. We can see here that if the connector space object has a property of isCriticalSystemObject not set to “true” AND adminDescription doesn’t start with “User_”, then the object will be provisioned. Remember that the object still exists in connector space, even though it won’t be projected into the metaverse.

Next, we get to the “join” rules which are critical to understand. The join rules are the logic that creates the links between the metaverse objects, and the connector space objects, resulting in concrete MSSQL relationships. In this case, the rule is saying that the ms-DS-ConsistencyGuid on the connector space object needs to match the sourceAnchorBinary on the metaverse object. If the ms-DS-ConsistencyGuid property doesn’t exist, the objectGUID is used. It’s also important to remember that joins happen for both inbound (from a connector space into the metaverse) and outbound (from the metaverse into the connector space) attribute flows.

Lastly, the transformations list which target object properties need to be mutated. Note that the language for these transformations is effectively VBA. In this case, two properties will be set on the metaverse person:

1. cloudFiltered — This will be important later. This is a rather large rule that describes a list of string patterns, such as if the sAMAccountName starts with “krbtgt_” or “AAD_”, etc. If “true”, then a property called cloudFiltered will be set to “true” on the metaverse object.
2. sourceAnchorBinary — Remember this from the join rule? In this rule, the sourceAnchorBinary is set on the metaverse object to match either the ms-DS-ConsistencyGuid or the objectId.

We have now walked through a full provisioning rule but note that most rules do not provision anything; rather, they are joined to existing objects and certain transformations are projected into the metaverse.

So far, we have described the flow into the metaverse, so how does a property flow out? Let’s take a look at the two rules we care about. First, let’s look at how users are provisioned in Entra:

The “Link Type” is “Provision”, meaning that a new object will be created in the Entra connector space. The Entra connector (Sync Agent), will use that object creation to trigger a new user creation in Entra.

This part is really important. If we look at the filter, objects are only provisioned to the Entra connector space if all of these conditions are met. Remember that some of our privileged accounts, such as the “MSOL” account, “krbtgt”, and “AAD_” account names are set to be cloud filtered. That means that they are projected into the metaverse, but the Entra user provisioning is simply being blocked by the sync engine.

Last rule, I promise. Let’s look at how Entra users are joined to on-premises users:

This is saying that if an Entra user with a source anchor matches a metaverse object with the same source anchor, they will be tied together.

Do you see it?

There are partially linked objects in the metaverse, and we can trigger a link by creating a new user with the matching sourceAnchor.

In simple terms, CloudFiltered objects are prevented from being provisioned only! AKA Outbound Filtering. If we can provision the Entra user ourselves, we can complete the inbound join rule and take over the user account in another domain, as long as the MSOL account can write their msDS-KeyCredentialLink property.

And chaining this together, because we can control the user password and creation from the compromised sync account in Domain A, we can then add the WHFB credentials discussed in the part one of this blog series and add credentials to a potentially privileged user.

Before we continue, this attack has some important caveats:

The MSOL account used for attribute flows has write permissions at the “Users” OU level by default. If a user account has inheritance disabled, then MSOL will not be able to write to it and this attack will not affect the account.

Walkthough

Enough talking; let’s do a walkthrough. In this scenario, we have a tenant (hotnops.com) with two on-premises domains: federated.hotnops.com and hybrid.hotnops.com. As an attacker, we have fully compromised federated.honops.com and have an unprivileged Beacon in hybrid.hotnops.com. We will take advantage of the compromised Entra Connect Sync account in federated.honops.com to take over hybrid.hotnops.com.

If you want a full walkthrough with all the command line minutae, the video is here:

https://medium.com/media/c660b5db95016d2c1ab9ef61bd362c51/href

Step 1

From the Beacon in hybrid.hotnops.com, we need to identify an account we’d like to take over and identify the sourceAnchor that we need.

To do this, we want to find partially synced metaverse objects. For the sake of this walkthrough, we can run dsquery:

#> dsquery * "CN=Users,DC=hybrid,DC=hotnops,DC=com" -attr *

With those results, we want to look for any account that matches our “CloudFiltered” rule, which is defined here.
In our case, there is an account named “AAD_cb48101f-7fc5–4d40-ac6c-09b22d42a3ed”. These are older connector accounts installed with AAD Connect Sync. If you identify an account that may be cloud filtered, you will need the corresponding ObjectID associated with the account that is in the dsquery results. In our case, the object ID is

0A08E28B-5D21–4960-A25A-F724F1E96155

Since the ObjectId is used as the sourceAnchor, we want to create a new Entra user with that sourceAnchor so it will link to our targeted “AAD_” account. In order to convert the UUID to a sourceAnchor, we simply need to convert the UUID to a binary blob where each section is little endian. I have a script to do it here, but there are probably easier ways.

./uuid_to_sourceAnchor.py 0A08E28B-5D21–4960-A25A-F724F1E96155

We now want to use our Sync Account in federated.hotnops.com to create a new user with that sourceAnchor so that it will create a link to our target user in hybrid.hotnops.com. We can do that by obtaining credentials for the ADSync account and using the provisioning API. You’ll need to obtain an access token for the ADSync account, which I demonstrate in the video linked above. Once you have your token, you’ll need to use AADInternals to create the account.

#> Set-AADIntAzureADObject -AccessToken $token -SourceAnchor $sourceAnchor -userPrincipalName <upnOfTarget> -accountEnabled $true

At this point, we have achieved Step 1. We have a new user in Entra with a matching sourceAnchor, and now we need to wait up to 30 minutes (by default) for the target domain to run an Entra Connect sync, at which time the Entra user and the on-premises target “AAD_cb48101f-7fc5–4d40-ac6c-09b22d42a3ed” link together.

Step 2

Once the user is created, add an msDS-KeyCredentialLink to the newly created Entra user as documented in the first blog post in this series.

Step 3: Profit

Once the Entra Connect sync agent on hybrid.hotnops.com runs the next sync, it will use the join rule “In from AAD — User Join” to link the Entra user to the metaverse object associated with the on-premises “AAD_cb48101f-7fc5–4d40-ac6c-09b22d42a3ed” account.

From here, we will use our Beacon in hybrid.hotnops.com and methods documented in the Shadow Credentials blog to elevate privileges.

As a result of registering a Windows Hello For Business (WHFB) key on your created Entra user, you will have a key called “winhello.key”. In order to use it with Rubeus, we need to format it as a PFX file. The steps are below:

openssl req -new -key ./winhello.key -out ./winhello_cert_req.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ./winhello_cert_req.csr -signkey ./winhello.key -out ./winhello_cert.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -out aad.pfx -inkey ./winhello.key -in ./winhello_cert.pem

Now, we need to go to our Beacon on hybrid.hotnops.com and upload the PFX:

beacon> upload aad.pfx

Now, run the Rubeus command:

beacon> rubeus asktgt /user:AAD_cb48101f-7fc5–4d40-ac6c-09b22d42a3ed /certificate:C:\Path\To\aad.pfx /password:"certPassword" /domain:hybrid.hotnops.com /dc:DC1-HYBRID.hotnops.com /getcredentials /ptt

Congratulations! Your Beacon process now has a token for your targeted account.

Prevention Identify All Partially Synced Users

For our purposes, a partially synced user is one that has an object in the on-premises connector space, a projection in the metaverse, but not an object in the Entra connector space. The reason why these exist, as mentioned earlier, is due to outbound filtering. In order to determine which users are partially synced, we can query all the objects in the metaverse and connector spaces and see which ones don’t have an object in the Entra connector space. The script to do that is here and here is an example output:

Identify All Privileged Users Inheriting Permissions From the Users OU

When Entra Connect is installed, an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Connector account is created in the naming scheme of “MSOL_<random garbage>”. This account is responsible for syncing hashes (yes, it has DCSync privileges) and reading/writing properties on users to support the attribute flows. As a result of this, the MSOL account is given write all over all users in the “Users” OU.

That means this attack can affect any user that inherits their discretionary access control lists (DACLs) from the Users OU (which is pretty much all users). This is generally true of any Sync attack; however, something I learned during this research is that users added to sensitive privileged groups such as Domain Administrators will automatically have their inheritance disabled. Even when I re-enable it, some script comes along and disables it again. This led me to this technet article which claims that any AD group marked “protected” will routinely get a template DACL applied to them located at CN=AdminSDHolder,CN=System,DC=hybrid,DC=hotnops,DC=com.

So which users are “protected”?

Any user that has the adminCount property set to “1”. Ultimately, as long as the target’s msDS-KeyCredentialLink attribute is writable by the MSOL account AND it is partially synced, then it is susceptible to this attack. I provided a powershell cmdlet to list all users that inherit their DACLs from the Users OU:

Detection

Detection of this misconfiguration/attack may be difficult but there are some solid signals that something is off. If any users in the Entra connector space have a metaverse projection with a “cloudFiltered” attribute set to “true”, then something is wrong. You can use the powershell cmdlet here to check for those users. While this doesn’t detect all hijackable metaverse objects, it does cover the most obvious case of cloudFiltered users.

References

Microsoft Entra Connect Sync: Configure filtering - Microsoft Entra ID

Shadow Credentials: Abusing Key Trust Account Mapping for Account Takeover | by Elad Shamir | Posts By SpecterOps Team Members

Gerenios/AADInternals: AADInternals PowerShell module for administering Azure AD and Office 365

DEF CON 32 — Abusing Windows Hello Without a Severed Hand — Ceri Coburn, Dirk jan Mollema

Introducing ROADtools Token eXchange (roadtx) — Automating Azure AD authentication, Primary Refresh Token (ab)use and device registration — dirkjanm.io

aadinternals.com/talks/Attacking Azure AD by abusing Synchronisation API.pdf

Entra Connect Attacker Tradecraft: Part 2 was originally published in Posts By SpecterOps Team Members on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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