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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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pPim Remote File Inclusion Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in pPIM's upload.php script that allows attackers to upload arbitrary scripts of any type to the target server.
Microsoft Host Integration Server Remote DoS (MS11-082)
Microsoft Host Integration Server is prone to a remote denial of service due to improper memory handling by the process SnaBase.exe when parsing UDP packets arriving on port 1478.
QEMU Floppy Disk Controller fdctrl_handle_drive_specification_command Virtual Machine Escape Exploit (VENOM)
The fdctrl_handle_drive_specification_command() function in the code that emulates the Floppy Disk Controller in QEMU does not properly reset the index within a buffer when processing user-controlled data, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the QEMU process that runs on the Host system. An attacker running code within a Guest operating system can exploit this vulnerability in order to escape from the QEMU virtual machine and execute arbitrary code on the Host operating system.
Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver Double Free Vulnerability Exploit (MS14-040) Update 4
This module exploits a double-free vulnerability in "afd.sys" by calling to "AfdTransmiteFile" function with crafted parameters. This update improves the exploit reliability when 64-bit targets have more than 4GB of RAM memory.
Microsoft Windows AFD AfdJoinLeaf Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS11-080)
The Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) present in Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to an arbitrary pointer overwrite. This module allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted IOCTL to the vulnerable driver.
Solarwinds FSM is vulnerable to an authentication bypass in userlogin.jsp that allows attacker to upload an agent via a weekness in the username atribute in settings-new.jsp allowing us to install an agent.
TwonkyMedia Server Error Page Cross Site Scripting Exploit
Input passed via the URL is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. This update lists the module in Impact's WebApp view.
Exploits/Cross Site Scripting (XSS)/Known Vulnerabilities
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Microsoft Windows SMB Trans Buffer Overflow DoS (MS09-001)
This module exploits a remote vulnerability on Trans operation via a malformed CreateWithSdOrEa SMB command on the srv.sys driver.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database (msjet40.dll) trough a Microsoft Access Document. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in msjet40.dll within the processing of mdb files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in Client Service for NetWare (CSNW) in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted messages.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in Client Service for NetWare (CSNW) in Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted messages.
Adobe Acrobat Reader armsvc Service Privilege Escalation Exploit
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.15 and 11.x before 11.0.12, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 2015.006.30060, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 2015.008.20082 on Windows and OS X allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and perform a transition from Low Integrity to Medium Integrity via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-4446 and CVE-2015-5106.
Microsoft Windows Win32k Cursor Object Double Free Vulnerability DoS (MS15-010) Update
This module exploits a double free vulnerability in win32k.sys, allowing an unprivileged local user to cause a BSOD. This update improves the post exploitation target information to include the CVE.
Microsoft Windows Sysret Instruction Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS12-042) Update
On Intel CPUs, sysret to non-canonical addresses causes a fault on the sysret instruction itself after the stack pointer is set to guest value but before the current privilege level (CPL) is changed. Windows is vulnerable due to the way the Windows User Mode Scheduler handles system requests. This module exploits the vulnerability and installs an agent with system privileges. This update fixes an issue in the documentation.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint pp4x322 DLL Hijacking Exploit
Microsoft Office PowerPoint is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of pp4x322.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .PPT file.