Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Snort rule update for Dec. 8, 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.

Here's a breakdown of this evening's rule release:

Shared object rules Modified shared object rules New rules Modified rules
0 0 9 3

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

Talos's rule release:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17096: A coding deficiency exists in NTFS that may lead to remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 56561 through 56562.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17121: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft SharePoint that may lead to remote code execution.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 56560.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17144: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Exchange that may lead to remote code execution.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 56554.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17152: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (on-premises) that may lead to remote code execution.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 56558.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2020-17158: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (on-premises) that may lead to remote code execution.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 56557.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the file-multimedia, malware-other, os-windows, policy-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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