Rule Category

BROWSER-CHROME -- Snort has detected suspicious traffic known to exploit vulnerabilities present in the Chrome browser. These rules are separate from the "browser-webkit" category; while it uses the Webkit rendering engine, there's a lot of other features to create a secondary Chrome category.

Alert Message

BROWSER-CHROME Google Chrome FileSystemObject function call

Rule Explanation

This rule is looking for Scripting.FileSystemObject within the JavaScript in HTML pages that indicates the intention of running commands on the local filesystem.

What To Look For

This event is generated when a call to FileSystemObject is detected in Google Chrome.

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

Rule Vulnerability

Escalation of Privilege

An Escalation of Privilege (EOP) attack is any attack method that results in a user or application gaining permissions to access resources they normally would not have access to.

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-2009-3931
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Privilege Escalation

Technique: Bypass User Account Control

For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org