Sid 1-57998

Report a false positive

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 Internet Explorer memory corruption attempt

Rule Explanation

This rule alerts when an attacker attempts to exploit 2021-34480

What To Look For

This rule alerts when an attacker attempts to exploit 2021-34480

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos

MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Execution

Technique: User Execution

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

Additional Links

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-34480

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