Snort rule update for Jan. 14, 2020: Microsoft Patch Tuesday

The latest SNORT® rule release from Cisco Talos has arrived. This new round of rules provides coverage for all of the vulnerabilities covered in Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

For more details on the vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed this week, head to the Talos blog.

In all, this release includes 22 new rules and five modified rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos's rule release:

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-0601: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI that may lead to spoofing.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 52593 through 52596.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-0634: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Common Log File System Driver that may lead to an escalation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 52604 through 52605.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, browser-chrome, browser-ie, browser-webkit, exploit-kit, malware-cnc and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

You can subscribe to Talos' newest rule detection functionality for as low as $29 a year with a personal account. Be sure and see our business pricing as well here. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats.