Unprivileged Delegation of Page Faults Handling to a Userspace Process
Description
Detect a successful unprivileged userfaultfd syscall, which could serve as an attack primitive for exploiting other vulnerabilities. To fine-tune this rule, consider using the template list "user_known_userfaultfd_processes".
Query · falco
evt.type = userfaultfd and user.uid != 0 and (evt.rawres >= 0 or evt.res != -1) and not proc.name in (user_known_userfaultfd_processes)
Analyst notes
An userfaultfd syscall was successfully executed by an unprivileged user | evt_type=%evt.type user=%user.name user_uid=%user.uid user_loginuid=%user.loginuid process=%proc.name proc_exepath=%proc.exepath parent=%proc.pname command=%proc.cmdline terminal=%proc.tty