BROWSER-IE -- Snort has detected traffic known to exploit vulnerabilities present in the Internet Explorer browser, or products that have the Trident or Tasman engines.
BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer VBScript remote code execution attempt
This event is generated when attempt to exploit the Visual Basic Scripting Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer is detected. Impact: Potential Code Execution Details: Ease of Attack:
This event is generated when attempt to exploit the Visual Basic Scripting Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer is detected.
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Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
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Use After Free
Use After Free (UAF) attacks target computer memory flaws to corrupt the memory execute code. The name refers to attempts to use memory after it has been freed, which can cause a program to crash under normal circumstances, or result in remote code execution in a successful attack.
CVE-2018-8373 |
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Tactic: Execution
Technique: User Execution
For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org