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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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Drupal BlogAPI Remote Execution Exploit Update 3
The BlogAPI module does not validate the extension of files that it is used to upload, enabling users with the "administer content with blog api" permission to upload harmful files. This module uploads an IMPACT agent, creates a php file to execute the agent and then makes a request to the file. The result is an IMPACT agent running on the webserver.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Notes 8.5 when parsing a malformed, specially crafted WK3 (SpreadSheet Lotus 1-2-3 Document) file.
QQPlayer contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in QQPlayer when handling .ASX files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .ASX file.
Microsoft Windows LNK Shortcut Automatic File Execution Exploit
Microsoft Windows is prone to a vulnerability that may allow a file to automatically run because the software fails to handle 'LNK' files properly. Specifically, the issue occurs when loading the icon of a shortcut file. A specially crafted 'LNK' file can cause Windows to automatically execute code that is specified by the shortcut file. This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
An integer overflow error exists in the processing of MP4 files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via e.g. an MP4 file containing a specially crafted "ctts" box.
Microsoft Windows helpctr Invalid URL Processing Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability caused due to an error in the MPC::HTML::UrlUnescapeW() function in helpctr.exe when escaping URLs.
WARNING: This is an early release module.This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs
or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader when parsing .PDF files. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in authplay.dll when handling crafted malicious Flash (.SWF) file or by embedding a malicious Flash application in a .PDF file.
A use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit/Apple Safari (in versions prior to 4.0.5) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via HTML elements with right-to-left (RTL) text directionality.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error with the handling of PORT commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted command passed to the affected server.
Microsoft Windows Media Services Remote Exploit (MS10-025)
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Media Services by sending a specially crafted packet to the port 1755/TCP.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
FeedDemon OPML Outline Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit
FeedDemon is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks when opening .OPML files.
eDisplay Personal FTP Server RMD Command Buffer Overflow Exploit
eDisplay Personal FTP server is an FTP server for Microsoft Windows. The server is exposed to multiple remote buffer overflow issues because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data, for example, sending an RMD crafted command
The application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because
it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input to the 'query'
parameter of the search pages. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
vBulletin 4.0.2 is vulnerable. This issue does not affect vBulletin 3.x
A cross-site scripting vulnerability is present in TestLink before 1.8.5 allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the req parameter to login.php.
Yahoo Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Yahoo Player when handling .YPL files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .YPL file.
Exploits a missing verification of the path in the command "sudoedit", provided by the sudo package. This can be exploited to e.g. execute any command as root including a shell, allowing an unprivileged process to elevate privileges to root.
The vulnerability is caused due to the banner-edit.php script allowing the upload of files with arbitrary extensions to a folder inside the webroot. This can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a specially crafted PHP script that contains the GIF magic number.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error with the handling of PORT commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted command passed to the affected server.
Novell iPrint Client Date Time Parameter Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ienipp.ocx control included in the Novell iPrint Client application. The exploit is triggered when the Date Time parameter processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE when the HsbParser.getSoundBank function in jsound.dll handles a specially crafted .JAR file.
SoftNAS Cloud is a software-defined NAS filer delivered as a virtual storage appliance that runs within public, private or hybrid clouds. SoftNAS Cloud provides enterprise-grade NAS capabilities, including encryption, snapshots, rapid rollbacks, and cross-zone high-availability with automatic failover.
A command injection vulnerability was found in the web administration console. In particular, snserv script did not sanitize some input parameters before executing a system command.
Zen Cart record_company Remote Code Execution Exploit
Zen Cart is prone to a vulnerability that attackers can leverage to execute arbitrary code. This issue occurs in the 'admin/record_company.php' script. Specifically, the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input to the 'frmdt_content' parameter of the 'record_company_image' array.
A Remote Code Execution issue has been found in Zabbix version 1.6.2 and no authentication is required in order to exploit this vulnerability. Magic Quotes must be turned off in order to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: Magic quotes is no longer supported by PHP starting with PHP 6.0