Rule Category

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.

Alert Message

BROWSER-IE Microsoft Edge memory corruption attempt

Rule Explanation

There is a vulnerability in Microsoft Edge that allows an attacker to gain a write-what-where primitive. The vulnerability lies in the implementation of IDispatchEx::InvokeEx.

What To Look For

This rule triggers on a memory corruption attempt in Microsoft Edge, known as CVE-2019-0752.

Known Usage

Public information/Proof of Concept available

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

Additional Links

Rule Vulnerability

Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption is any vulnerability that allows the modification of the content of memory locations in a way not intended by the developer. Memory corruption results are inconsistent; they could lead to fatal errors and system crashes or data leakage; some have no effect at all.

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-2019-0752
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Execution

Technique: Exploitation for Client Execution

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