SID 1:31749

Rule Category

FILE-FLASH -- Snort has detected suspicious traffic via the Adobe Flash Player. Flash is a common target of code execution, overflow, DoS, and memory corruption attacks in particular, via swifs, action scripts, etc. Many networks block Flash altogether; the application will be deprecated in 2020.

Alert Message

FILE-FLASH Adobe Flash Player marshallException through JavaScript XSS attempt

Rule Explanation

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.223 and 14.x before 14.0.0.125 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.378 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.110, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.110, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.110 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0532 and CVE-2014-0533. Impact: CVSS base score 4.3 CVSS impact score 2.9 CVSS exploitability score 8.6 confidentialityImpact NONE integrityImpact PARTIAL availabilityImpact PARTIAL 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].