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Zotob.A Exploits PnP Vulnerability

August 14th, 2005 by noam, Filed under: Microsoft, Commentary

A new worm has been found in the wild - Zotob.A. This new worm exploits a recently published Microsoft vulnerability. The vulnerability involves exploiting Windows’ PnP service.

This new worm is quite interesting as Microsoft released MS05-039 on August 9, 2005, an exploit for this vulnerability was released 3 days afterwards on August 12, 2005 and now a worm has been set loose, all in less than 5 days.

I think this is a new record for the “vulnerability -> patch -> exploit -> worm” cycle.

Time will tell how widespread this worm will be, you can learn more on this worm in the following post: Zotob.A.