Thursday, August 5, 2021

Snort rule update for Aug. 5, 2021

The latest SNORTⓇ ruleset is available this morning from Cisco Talos.

Thursday's rule update includes protection against two pre-authorization vulnerabilities in the Cisco RV series of routers. The two vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed this week could allow an attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition or execute commands and arbitrary code on vulnerable devices.

Here's a full breakdown of this release:

Shared object rulesModified shared object rulesNew rulesModified rules
100

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

Talos' rule release:

Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the 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. The Snort 3 release is also here after years of development and improvements. Upgrade here.