Rule Category

SERVER-OTHER -- Snort has detected traffic exploiting vulnerabilities in a server in the network.

Alert Message

SERVER-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion vulnerable DataServicesCFProxy class reference attempt

Rule Explanation

This rule looks for the return of a reference to a vulnerable class found in Adobe ColdFusion. If a malicious user is able to get a reference to this class on a vulnerable Adobe ColdFusion version, then they could use it to trigger an unsafe deserialization vulnerability and get remote code execution.

What To Look For

This rule looks for the return of a reference to a vulnerable class found in Adobe ColdFusion.

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

Rule Vulnerability

Insecure Deserialization

Insecure Deserialization relates to web application security. Applications turn an object into data through serialization; the reverse of that process, deserialization, can be vulnerable to attacks when the application trusts the data that is being deserialized. Serialized data is machine readable and not encrypted; serialized user-supplied data should not be trusted. Deserialization attacks can lead to remote code execution.

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-2018-15959
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CVE-2018-4939
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Initial Access

Technique: Exploit Public-Facing Application

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