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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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
VMware vCenter Server uploadova TAR Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Exploit
Unauthenticated file upload vulnerability via uploadova plugin in VMware vCenter Server to upload and extract a TAR file.
The TAR file contains a path traversal that allows writing files at arbitraries locations.
Microsoft Windows Win32k Improper Message Handling Vulnerability Exploit (MS13-005)
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows kernel improperly handles window broadcast messages. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in PrintControl.dll ActiveX control when processing the ServerResourceVersion property and can be exploited via an overly long string.
Cisco AnyConnect Posture Security Service TOCTOU Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The Security Service of Cisco AnyConnect Posture (HostScan) for Windows incorrectly restricts access to internal IPC commands. This could enable low-privileged users to achieve NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges by sending crafted IPC commands.
This module bypasses CVE-2021-1366 by abusing a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in the priv_file_copy command.
This update adds code to launch the exploit for CVE-2021-1366 if the detected version is vulnerable to it.
An error in the way the bytecode verifier of Java validates field access instructions when preparing to JIT-compile a method can be abused to cause a type confusion vulnerability. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user.
Buffer overflow in Csound exists when trying to import a malicious hetro file in tabular format. In order to achieve exploitation the user should import the malicious file through csound with a console command like:
VMware vCenter Server Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
A java unsafe reflection and a Server Side Request Forgery vulnerabilities present in ProxygenController class of VMware vCenter Server Virtual SAN Health Check plugin allows remote attackers to execute commands in the context of the vsphere-ui user account.
Solar-Log 500 2.8.2 - Unprotected Storage of Credentials Vulnerability
Solar-Log allows to unauthenticated user disclose the username and password remotely.
Exploits / Client Side
SCADAPRO
Panda Security for Business Pagent MESSAGE_FROM_REMOTE Path Traversal Exploit
The Pagent service component of Panda Security for Business is prone to a path traversal vulnerability when handling MESSAGE_FROM_REMOTE packets.
This vulnerability can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to drop arbitrary files in the vulnerable machine in order to gain remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges.
Linux Kernel eBPF OOB Read Write ALU32 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The eBPF ALU32 bounds tracking for bitwise ops (AND, OR and XOR) in the Linux kernel did not properly update 32-bit bounds, which could be turned into out of bounds reads and writes in the Linux kernel and therefore, arbitrary code execution. This issue was fixed via commit 049c4e13714e ("bpf: Fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations") (v5.13-rc4) and backported to the stable kernels in v5.12.4, v5.11.21, and v5.10.37.
This module will receive HTTP requests from vulnerable clients and install agents on them.
Exploits / Client Side
SCADA
DHCP Server with Bash Variables Injection Exploit
This update includes a module implementing a DHCP server that'll attack querying hosts using the GNU Bash Environment Variables Injection vulnerability.
Microsoft Windows Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS16-135) Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in win32k.sys. By forcing an invalid combination of window style and window menu a local attacker can trigger a kernel arbitrary write and elevate privileges.
This update adds support to Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bits) and Windows 2008 R2 (64 bits)
Confluence Server 7.12.4 - Remote Code Execution (Unauthenticated)
In affected versions of Confluence Server and Data Center, an OGNL injection vulnerability exists that would allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or Data Center instance. The affected versions are before version 6.13.23, from version 6.14.0 before 7.4.11, from version 7.5.0 before 7.11.6, and from version 7.12.0 before 7.12.5.
Tested against Confluence 7.12.3
Exploits / Remote Code Execution
SCADAPRO
Windows ICC buffer overflow exploit update
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Color Management Module via a jpeg image with crafted ICC profile format tags and installs an agent. This update adds support for browser URL redirection.
Apache HTTP Server Path Traversal Bypass File Disclosure Exploit
A path traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP server may allow an unauthenticated attacker to download system files through specially crafted HTTP resource requests.
CVE-2021-41773 It was found that the fix for CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was insufficient. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives. If files outside of these directories are not protected by the usual default configuration "require all denied", these requests can succeed. If CGI scripts are also enabled for these aliased pathes, this could allow for remote code execution.
Exploits / Remote Code Execution
SCADA
Linux Kernel Netfilter Xt Compat Target From User Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS (via heap memory corruption) through user name space.