Potential Privilege Escalation via CVE-2023-4911

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Potential Privilege Escalation via CVE-2023-4911

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This rule detects potential privilege escalation attempts through Looney Tunables (CVE-2023-4911). Looney Tunables is a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library’s dynamic loader’s processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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: 3

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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sequence by host.id, process.parent.entity_id, process.executable with maxspan=5s
 [process where host.os.type == "linux" and event.action == "exec" and event.type == "start" and
  process.env_vars : "*GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.*=glibc.*=*"] with runs=5

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM