Rule Category

PROTOCOL-TELNET -- Snort has detected traffic that may indicate the presence of the telnet protocol or vulnerabilities in the telnet protocol on the network.

Alert Message

PROTOCOL-TELNET netkit-telnet server memory corruption attempt

Rule Explanation

This rule detects a remote code execution attempt against vulnerable versions of the netkit-telnet telnet server by searching for the telnet command primitives "IAC DO SB" used to set up the vulnerable condition.

What To Look For

This rule detects a remote code execution attempt against vulnerable versions of the netkit-telnet telnet server.

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

Additional Links

Rule Vulnerability

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-2020-10188
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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