Rule Category

BROWSER-IE -- Snort has detected traffic known to exploit vulnerabilities present in the Internet Explorer browser, or products that have the Trident or Tasman engines.

Alert Message

BROWSER-IE Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 compatibility mode enable attempt

Rule Explanation

This event is generated when a web page is trying to force the browser to treat it as if it were IE 8 Impact: Potential Corporate Privacy Violation Details: Ease of Attack:

What To Look For

This rule alerts when it sees code meant to callup older, vulnerable functions of IE

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

None

Additional Links

Rule Vulnerability

No information provided

CVE Additional Information

This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

None

MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Defense Evasion

Technique: AppleScript

For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org