ET EXPLOIT Quest KACE Desktop Authority Insecure Named Pipe ImpersonateAdmin Operation (CVE-2025-67813)

Query · suricata

flow:established,to_server;
flowbits:isset,ET.QuestKACE.SMB;
content:"SMB"; depth:8;
content:"|fe ff 00 fe ff 00 fe ff 20|I|00|m|00|p|00|e|00|r|00|s|00|o|00|n|00|a|00|t|00|e|00|A|00|d|00|m|00|i|00|n|00|"; fast_pattern;
target:dest_ip;

Rule dependencies

⚠ Higher-order rule. It fires on other rules' alerts, not on raw events, so it cannot fire on its own. Deploy the rules it depends on too.

Depends on

Raw source ET EXPLOIT Quest KACE Desktop Authority Insecure Named Pipe ImpersonateAdmin Operation (CVE-2025-67813) · Suricata
Esc
Published by Emerging Threats Open ↗, licensed under BSD 3-Clause ↗. Line breaks added for readability; the rule is otherwise unchanged. 
alert smb any any -> $HOME_NET any (
    msg:"ET EXPLOIT Quest KACE Desktop Authority Insecure Named Pipe ImpersonateAdmin Operation (CVE-2025-67813)";
    flow:established,to_server;
    flowbits:isset,ET.QuestKACE.SMB;
    content:"SMB"; depth:8;
    content:"|fe ff 00 fe ff 00 fe ff 20|I|00|m|00|p|00|e|00|r|00|s|00|o|00|n|00|a|00|t|00|e|00|A|00|d|00|m|00|i|00|n|00|"; fast_pattern;
    reference:url,www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/adversary-simulation/pipe-dreams-remote-code-execution-via-quest-desktop-authority-named-pipe/;
    reference:cve,2025-67813;
    classtype:attempted-admin;
    sid:2067420; rev:4;
    metadata:attack_target Server, created_at 2026_02_09, cve CVE_2025_67813, deployment Perimeter, deployment Internal, confidence High, signature_severity Major, tag Exploit, updated_at 2026_02_10, mitre_tactic_id TA0001, mitre_tactic_name Initial_Access, mitre_technique_id T1190, mitre_technique_name Exploit_Public_Facing_Application;
    target:dest_ip;
)

Detection rules belong to the projects that publish them and remain under their own licenses. This site indexes and links to them; it claims no rights in them.