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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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Apache 2.4.49 Remote Code Execution
CVE-2021-41773 A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the expected document root. If files outside of the document root are not protected by "require all denied" these requests can succeed. Additionally this flaw could leak the source of interpreted files like CGI scripts. This issue only affects Apache 2.4.49 and not earlier versions.
Exploits / Remote Code Execution
SCADA
VMware vCenter Server Log4shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters present in Apache Log4j2 do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. This library, used by VMware vCenter Server, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute system commands.
CVE-2021-22205 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.9. GitLab was not properly validating image files that were passed to a file parser which resulted in a remote command execution.
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API Remote Code Execution Exploit
This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers with network access to the iControl REST interface, through the BIG-IP management interface and self IP addresses, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, and disable services. This vulnerability can only be exploited through the control plane and cannot be exploited through the data plane. Exploitation can lead to complete system compromise. The BIG-IP system in Appliance mode is also vulnerable
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Atlassian Jira Template Injection Vulnerability Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
Server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center, in the ContactAdministrators and the SendBulkMail actions.
If an SMTP server has been configured, then an unauthenticated user can execute code on vulnerable systems using the ContactAdministrators action if the "Contact Administrators Form" is enabled; or an authenticated user can execute code on vulnerable systems using the SendBulkMail action if the user has "JIRA Administrators" access.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
IBM i Distributed Data Management Remote CL Command Injection Exploit
An remote CL Command Injection on IBM i DDM Service allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute CL commands in the context of the QUSER user account.
An identified vulnerability in ScreenConnect allows attackers to bypass string comparison in the request path and access the setup wizard ("/SetupWizard.aspx") on configured instances. Exploiting this vulnerability enables an attacker to create an administrative user and upload a malicious ScreenConnect extension, potentially leading to remote code execution (RCE) on the server.
RESTWS alters the default page callbacks for entities to provide additional functionality. A vulnerability in this approach allows an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in arbitrary PHP execution.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact Professional
Pydio Cells Mailer Configuration Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
The administrative console in Pydio Cells allows a user with administrator role to set the path for the sendmail binary executable, when the "sendmail" option is selected in the mailer configuration.
Due to lack of sanitization in the given parameter, an administrator user can set the path to an arbitrary binary.
TrendMicro is prone to an abuse in the talker.php function to get authentication bypass, combined with the mod TMCSS user-supplied unvalidated input before using it to execute a system calls leads us to execute arbitrary code.
An AJP request smuggling present in F5 BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create an administrative user and execute OS systems commands in the context of the root user.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
OrientDB Remote Command Execution Exploit
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in OrientDB by abusing SQL queries on OUser/ORole without the privileges which allows users to get Code Execution.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
phpMyAdmin Post Auth Remote Code Exploit
phpMyAdmin is prone to a regexp abuse via an eval modifier which can be found in old PHP versions. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to run arbitrary php code on the affected server.
PHP versions 4.3.0-5.4.6 had a "feature" which allowed users to run a RegExp Pattern Modifier using PREG_REPLACE_EVAL and may lead to execute code.
phpMyAdmin had an issue in their code that can be exploited from a table replace call.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact Professional
Microsoft SharePoint Server DataSet Deserialization Remote OS Command Injection Exploit (CVE-2020-1147)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in .NET Framework, Microsoft SharePoint, and Visual Studio when the software fails to check the source markup of XML file input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the process responsible for deserialization of the XML content.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft SharePoint Server CreateChildControls Server Side Include Vulnerability Exploit (CVE-2020-16952)
A server-side include in Microsoft SharePoint via CreateChildControls in DataFormWebPart class allows an authenticated user to leak the web.config file and forge a malicious ViewState with the extracted validation key.
The user credentials requires user with page creation privileges, a standard permission.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Exchange Validation Key Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
.NET deserialization vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Control Panel web page allows authenticated attackers to execute OS commands with SYSTEM privileges.
The lack of randomization in the validationKey and decryptionKey values at installation allows an attacker to create a crafted viewstate to execute OS commands via .NET deserialization.
The Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence Server allows remote attackers to achieve path traversal and remote code execution via server-side template injection.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
IBM i Distributed Data Management Remote CL Command Injection Exploit Update
An remote CL Command Injection on IBM i DDM Service allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute CL commands in the context of the QUSER user account.
This update adds support for SSL services and an extra exploit stage