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Exploit development can be an advanced penetration testing skill that takes time to master. Additionally, when on a job, pen testers often don’t have the resources to create a new exploit. Many resort to searching for and using pre-written exploits that have not been tested and must go through the timely effort of quality assurance testing in order to ensure they are secure and effective.
Core Impact users can save time by finding all the up-to-date exploits they need in one place. We provide a robust library of exploits designed to enable pen testers to safely and efficiently conduct successful penetration tests. Whether written by our own internal team or by a third party like ExCraft, you can trust they have been thoroughly tested and validated by our experts.
The universe of vulnerabilities is huge and not all of them represent the same risk for the customers. Vulnerabilities do not all have the same level of criticality. Some may be easily exploitable by a low-level user, while others may not be exploitable at all. To increase the efficiency of the attacks and the quality of the exploits provided, the Core Impact team has developed selection criteria to prioritize its analysis and implementation. We determine which exploits warrant creation based on the following questions:
What are the most critical attacks from the attacker’s perspective?
What new vulnerabilities are more likely to be exploited in real attacks?
What exploits are the most valuable for Core Impact?
Once an exploit is approved, its priority order considers the following variables:
Vulnerability Properties: CVE, disclosure date, access mechanism and privileges needed.
Target Environment Setup: OS, application prevalence, version and special configurations needed.
Value Provided to Core Impact: Customer request, usage in multiple attacks, allows the installation of an agent, etc.
Technical Cost vs. Benefit: An analysis weighing the resources needed to build an exploit with the internal and external knowledge gained in its creation.
Each one of these variables has a different weight and provides a ranking of the potential exploits to be developed. Following those criteria, the top of the list would contain, for example, a vulnerability on Windows (most popular OS) that can be exploited remotely, without authentication and that provides super user privileges.
Correspondingly, a vulnerability on an application that is rarely installed, needs special configurations, and requires User Interaction, would be at the bottom.
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This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the web interface of Dup Scout Enterprise caused by improper bounds checking on the login process sent to the built-in web server.
This module exploits a heap-based buffer overflow in VBE.DLL and VBE6.DLL of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) SDK 5.0 through 6.3, via a document with a long ID parameter.
The register method in the UsersModelRegistration class in controllers/user.php in the Users component in Joomla! before 3.6.4 allows remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect use of unfiltered data when registering on a site. This registration works even when registration has been disabled.
This module exploits this vulnerability to add an administrator user to the Joomla database. Notice that this account could need registration confirmation (activation).
This update adds support for Windows 2000 SP0 and fixes a reliability issue. The module exploits a vulnerability in the .HTR ISAPI filter in early versions of IIS.
Disk Pulse Enterprise Server POST Request Buffer Overflow Exploit
Disk Pulse server is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability when handling a crafted POST request, this can trigger an overflow in a finite-sized internal memory buffer, and install an agent with SYSTEM priviledges.
Insufficient input validation in ImageMagick can lead to code execution when processing with certain types of files. This update introduces a module that generates an MVG format file that, when manipulated by the vulnerable versions of ImageMagick tools, deploys an agent in the supported systems.
Apple Mac OS X XPC Entitlements Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The Admin framework in Apple OS X contains a hidden backdoor API to gain root privileges. A local user can exploit this flaw in the checking of XPC entitlements.
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express for Software ActiveX Buffer Overflow Exploit Update 2
A flaw exists within the way the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express for Software ActiveX Control parses data supplied to the RunAndUploadFile function. The ActiveX control is used to create an Asset Information file for the local system to be uploaded to the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express Server.
This update corrects the CVE number, adds support for Internet Explorer 8 and disables DEP.
An issue was discovered in Open-AudIT 3.3.1. There is shell metacharacter injection via attributes to an open-audit/configuration/ URI. An attacker can exploit this by adding an excluded IP address to the global discovery settings (internally called exclude_ip). This exclude_ip value is passed to the exec function in the discoveries_helper.php file (inside the all_ip_list function) without being filtered, which means that the attacker can provide a payload instead of a valid IP address.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing the tags within .PAC files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long string.
Microsoft Windows DNS Server SIGRed Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the DNS server fails to properly handle SIG responses. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X7 Wintab32 DLL Hijacking Exploit
Untrusted search path vulnerability in CorelDRAW X7 17.1.0.572, Corel Photo-Paint X7 17.1.0.572, Corel PaintShop Pro X7 17.0.0.199, Corel Painter 2015 14.0.0.728, Corel PDF Fusion 1.12 Build 16/04/2013 and earlier, and possibly other versions allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll that is located in the same folder as an .cdr, .cpt, .pspimage, .rif or .pdf file.
Corel VideoStudio Pro X7 and FastFlix u32ZLib DLL Hijacking Exploit
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Corel VideoStudio Pro X7 17.0.0.249 and Corel FastFlix 17.0.0.249 and earlier, and possibly other versions allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse u32ZLib.dll that is located in the same folder as an .vsp or .vfp file.
The specific flaw exists within the PocketNetNVRMediaClientAxCtrl.NVRMediaViewer.1 control. The SaveCurrentImageEx method copies an attacker provided filename into a fixed size buffer.
Kolibri WebServer HTTP POST Request Buffer Overflow Exploit
Kolibri Webserver is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow as a result of failure to properly validate user-supplied input when handling HTTP POST requests.
Foxit Reader is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the loading and execution of any library file named imgseg.dll, if this dll is located in a determined subfolder where a .PDF file is.
Oracle Web Logic IIS JSESSIONID Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic IIS Connector when sending a specially crafted POST message with a specially JSESSIONID cookie.