Re: My Snort IDS Sensor Detected Nessus Vulnerability Scan

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

Probably because

A) you're behind a firewall
B) you're running Nessus. A scanner. Not an exploitation tool. It's not testing to see if something is vulnerable, it's 
scanning for the potential of the vulnerability
C) you've already asked this question and multiple people have answered it.

Please read documentation and test Snort.  Obviously it's working fine according to the other emails you've sent.

I'm receiving complaints about your emails, the frequently and the content.  Please check into the documentation.

--
Joel Esler
Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 18, 2014, at 15:29, "Teo En Ming" <teo.en.ming () gmail com<mailto:teo.en.ming () gmail com>> wrote:

Hi,

My Snort IDS sensor detected nessus vulnerability scan. The nessus vulnerability scan was launched from WAN outside of 
HOME_NET. However, the alerts generated were few. It seems that Snort rules are not comprehensive enough.

Here are the alerts:

04/19-02:54:23.361505  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:50619<http://171.207.15.38:50619> -> 192.168.1.146:80<http://192.168.1.146:80>
04/19-02:54:24.940222  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:50631<http://171.207.15.38:50631> -> 192.168.1.147:80<http://192.168.1.147:80>
04/19-02:56:13.080227  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:53504<http://171.207.15.38:53504> -> 192.168.1.146:80<http://192.168.1.146:80>
04/19-02:56:19.700298  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:53644<http://171.207.15.38:53644> -> 192.168.1.147:80<http://192.168.1.147:80>
04/19-02:56:50.601653  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:54289<http://171.207.15.38:54289> -> 192.168.1.146:80<http://192.168.1.146:80>
04/19-02:56:52.220320  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:54304<http://171.207.15.38:54304> -> 192.168.1.147:80<http://192.168.1.147:80>
04/19-02:57:02.961654  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:54605<http://171.207.15.38:54605> -> 192.168.1.146:80<http://192.168.1.146:80>
04/19-02:57:04.180442  [**] [1:25975:2] POLICY-OTHER Adobe ColdFusion admin interface access attempt [**] 
[Classification: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 
171.207.15.38:54615<http://171.207.15.38:54615> -> 192.168.1.147:80<http://192.168.1.147:80>
04/19-02:57:21.921667  [**] [1:22063:9] SERVER-WEBAPP PHP-CGI remote file include attempt [**] [Classification: 
Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 171.207.15.38:55062<http://171.207.15.38:55062> -> 
192.168.1.146:80<http://192.168.1.146:80>
04/19-02:57:23.962694  [**] [1:22063:9] SERVER-WEBAPP PHP-CGI remote file include attempt [**] [Classification: 
Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1] {TCP} 171.207.15.38:55145<http://171.207.15.38:55145> -> 
192.168.1.147:80<http://192.168.1.147:80>

Please note that Snort cannot detect nmap scan.

Thank you.

Regards,

Teo En Ming
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