{"id":140076,"date":"2022-06-02T01:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-windows-search-zero-day-added-to-microsoft-protocol-nightmare"},"modified":"2022-06-02T01:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:02:34","slug":"new-windows-search-zero-day-added-to-microsoft-protocol-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/new-windows-search-zero-day-added-to-microsoft-protocol-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"New Windows Search zero-day added to Microsoft protocol nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-windows-search-zero-day-added-to-microsoft-protocol-nightmare3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Windows Search zero-day vulnerability can be used to automatically open a search window containing remotely-hosted malware executables simply by launching a Word document.<\/p>\n<p>The security issue can be leveraged because Windows supports a URI protocol handler called \u2018search-ms\u2019 that allows applications and HTML links to launch customized searches on a device.<\/p>\n<p>While most Windows searches will look on the local device\u2019s index, it is also possible to force Windows Search to query file shares on remote hosts and use a custom title for the search window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Windows Search zero-day vulnerability can be used to automatically open a search window containing remotely-hosted malware executables simply by launching a Word document. The security issue can be leveraged because Windows supports a URI protocol handler called \u2018search-ms\u2019 that allows applications and HTML links to launch customized searches on a device. While most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}