Rule Category

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

Alert Message

SERVER-OTHER Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 deserialization attempt

Rule Explanation

Microsoft's Exchange 2010 Server suffers from a deserialization vulnerability via it's Exchange Web Services (EWS) SOAP API. Using a valid user account an attacker is able to upload a malicious serialized binary that would allow for remote code execution on the server.

What To Look For

This rule alerts when an attempt to trigger an deserialization vulnerability on a Microsoft's Exchange 2010 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

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

This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
CVE-2020-17144
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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Execution

Technique: User Execution

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