SID 1:28089

Rule Category

POLICY-SOCIAL -- Snort has detected a violation of the corporate policy. Similar to an IOC, this activity may not be directly malicious, but could be a symptom of compromise, or of a misuse of the network. Examples are cryptocurrency mining and strade (Bitcoin, et al). The ISP won’t block these, but corporate policies likely prohibit them. In this case, Snort has detected a violation of social media policy. Some companies choose to disallow some or all social media, or to only allow in-network social sharing. This can prevent simple productivity loss or serious NDA breaches (sharing of files from the internal network, etc.).

Alert Message

POLICY-SOCIAL multiple chat protocols link to local file attempt

Rule Explanation

gtkutils.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a message containing a file: URL that is improperly handled during construction of an explorer.exe command. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3185. Impact: CVSS base score 9.3 CVSS impact score 10.0 CVSS exploitability score 8.6 confidentialityImpact COMPLETE integrityImpact COMPLETE availabilityImpact COMPLETE Details: Ease of Attack:

What To Look For

No information provided

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Talos research team. This document was generated from data supplied by the national vulnerability database, a product of the national institute of standards and technology. For more information see [nvd].