Re: 1:11672, 3:11672 BROWSER-OTHER Mozilla Network Security Services SSLv2 stack overflow attempt

[Steve Thames via Snort-sigs <snort-sigs () lists snort org>]

The only rule I have is 3:11672, I don't see 1:11672. 

 

Agreed. Apparently the old rule 1:11672 is not included any longer.

 

Looking at the direction of the rule, I assume it is the response of the
server that maybe triggering the rules. Do the responding servers have
anything in common such as IP addresses, SSL configurations/certificate? You
might want to look closer at the traffic and the payload triggering the
rule.

 

Here is the rule signature:

 

alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 443 (msg:"BROWSER-OTHER Mozilla
Network Security Services SSLv2 stack overflow attempt"; sid:11672; gid:3;
rev:8; classtype:attempted-admin; 

flowbits:isnotset,sslv2.client_master_key.request;
flowbits:set,sslv2.client_master_key.request; reference:cve,2007-0009;
reference:bugtraq,22694; 

reference:url,labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=
482; metadata: engine shared, soid 3|11672, service ssl, policy
max-detect-ips drop;)

 

Perhaps I don't understand snort rules but I thought this was describing
traffic coming from the Internet to my servers.

Are you suggesting this alert will be triggered by a response from $HOME_NET
443? 

 

flowbits:isnotset,sslv2.client_master_key.request;
flowbits:set,sslv2.client_master_key.request;

 

AFAICT, this is the only part of the rule that matters and it appears to be
saying "trigger this alert if the request is trying to set
'sslv2.client_master_key.request' and it is not already set."

I'm guessing this alert is being triggered by a bot that is simply
attempting to gain admin access by exploiting the NSS vulnerability
described here
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2007-06/> .

 

Can someone describe how a request could trigger this rule and if there is
any danger to modern Apache or IIS servers?

 

 

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From: Snort-sigs <snort-sigs-bounces () lists snort org> on behalf of Steve
Thames via Snort-sigs <snort-sigs () lists snort org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 7:30 PM
To: snort-sigs () lists snort org
Subject: [Snort-sigs] 1:11672, 3:11672 BROWSER-OTHER Mozilla Network
Security Services SSLv2 stack overflow attempt 

 

In my pfSense Snort IDS/IPS, I am seeing an increasing number of these
alerts from customer network IPs. These are large orgs with, potentially,
hundreds of clients NATed to a single public IP.

 

This a very old threat and I'm reasonably sure the clients are not using a
10-year-old version of Mozilla, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, or Java to access
our web servers.

 

Can someone shed some light on why we would be seeing an increasing number
of these alerts?

 

Thanks.

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