Supply chain β›“ Supply Chain

FireEye / CISA / US GAO / Rapid7

πŸ“… 2020-03-26 🏒 SolarWinds Orion Platform 🦠 SUNBURST / TEARDROP / SUNSPOT πŸ”Ž CVE-2020-10148
Primary Source β†—

Incident Details

Russian SVR (APT29/Cozy Bear) compromised SolarWinds build environment and injected SUNBURST backdoor into Orion software updates distributed March-June 2020. ~18,000 customers received poisoned update; ~100 organizations actively targeted including US Treasury, State Dept, DHS, FireEye. Initial network compromise began Sept 2019. Discovered Dec 13 2020 when FireEye investigated theft of its own red team tools. MITRE ATT&CK Campaign C0024. US and UK governments attributed to Russian SVR in April 2021.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code inserted into SolarWinds Orion build pipeline
Vendor / Product
SolarWinds Orion Platform
Software Package
SolarWinds Orion
Malware Family
SUNBURST / TEARDROP / SUNSPOT
CVE / GHSA References
CVE-2020-10148
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2020-03-26 Breach occurred
  2. 2020-12-13 Publicly disclosed
  3. 2020-12-14 Customers notified