Talos Rules 2018-06-12
Talos is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft Corporation.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2018-8214: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Desktop Bridge that may lead to elevation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 46961 through 46962.

For information about Snort Subscriber Rulesets available for purchase, please visit the Snort product page.

Change logs

2018-06-12 23:08:20 UTC

Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Date: 2018-06-12

This is the complete list of rules modified and added in the Sourcefire VRT Certified rule pack for Snort version 3000.

The format of the file is:

gid:sid <-> Default rule state <-> Message (rule group)

New Rules:


 * 1:46962 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (snort3-os-windows.rules)
 * 1:46961 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (snort3-os-windows.rules)

Modified Rules:



2018-06-12 23:08:20 UTC

Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Date: 2018-06-12

This is the complete list of rules modified and added in the Sourcefire VRT Certified rule pack for Snort version 2091100.

The format of the file is:

gid:sid <-> Default rule state <-> Message (rule group)

New Rules:


 * 1:46961 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)
 * 1:46962 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)

Modified Rules:



2018-06-12 23:08:20 UTC

Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Date: 2018-06-12

This is the complete list of rules modified and added in the Sourcefire VRT Certified rule pack for Snort version 2091101.

The format of the file is:

gid:sid <-> Default rule state <-> Message (rule group)

New Rules:


 * 1:46962 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)
 * 1:46961 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)

Modified Rules:



2018-06-12 23:08:20 UTC

Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Date: 2018-06-12

This is the complete list of rules modified and added in the Sourcefire VRT Certified rule pack for Snort version 2983.

The format of the file is:

gid:sid <-> Default rule state <-> Message (rule group)

New Rules:


 * 1:46961 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)
 * 1:46962 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)

Modified Rules:



2018-06-12 23:08:20 UTC

Snort Subscriber Rules Update

Date: 2018-06-12

This is the complete list of rules modified and added in the Sourcefire VRT Certified rule pack for Snort version 2990.

The format of the file is:

gid:sid <-> Default rule state <-> Message (rule group)

New Rules:


 * 1:46962 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)
 * 1:46961 <-> DISABLED <-> OS-WINDOWS Windows Desktop Bridge privilege escalation attempt (os-windows.rules)

Modified Rules: