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Potential Privilege Escalation via Enlightenment
editPotential Privilege Escalation via Enlightenment
editIdentifies an attempt to exploit a local privilege escalation CVE-2022-37706 via a flaw in Linux window manager package Enlightenment. enlightenment_sys in Enlightenment before 0.25.4 allows local users to gain privileges because it is setuid root, and the system library function mishandles pathnames that begin with a /dev/.. substring.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5m
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Domain: Endpoint
- OS: Linux
- Use Case: Threat Detection
- Tactic: Privilege Escalation
- Use Case: Vulnerability
- Data Source: Elastic Defend
Version: 1
Rule authors:
- Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Rule query
editsequence by host.id, process.parent.entity_id with maxspan=5s [process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.action == "exec" and event.type == "start" and process.name == "enlightenment_sys" and process.args in ("/bin/mount/", "-o","noexec","nosuid","nodev","uid=*") ] [process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.action == "uid_change" and event.type == "change" and user.id == "0"]
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Privilege Escalation
- ID: TA0004
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0004/
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Technique:
- Name: Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
- ID: T1068
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1068/