Intrusion PreventionWSDirectory.UDP.Amplification.Detection
Description
This indicates a UDP Amplification attempt through the WS-Directory protocol.
The vulnerability is due to an error in the vulnerable application when handling a series of maliciously crafted requests. An attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition on the affected machine via maliciously crafted requests. The signature detects for 50 suspicious requests within 1 second.
Setting this signature to "Quarantine" is not definitive to who the attacker is as the both the client and the server are victims for this issue.
Affected Products
Systems using the WS-Directory protocol
Impact
Denial of Service: Remote attackers can crash vulnerable systems
Recommended Actions
Monitor the traffic from that network for any suspicious activity.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 48409 |
| Created | Oct 10, 2019 |
| Updated | Apr 17, 2023 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Other |
| Affected App | Other |