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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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VMware Workspace ONE Access validateClaimRuleCondition Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
This module exploits an OS command injection vulnerability present in the validateClaimRuleCondition function of ClaimTransformationHelper class of VMware Workspace ONE Access.
VMware Workspace ONE Access Hekate Remote Code Execution Exploit
An authentication bypass in OAuth2TokenResourceController access control service, a JDBC injection that allows remote code execution in DBConnectionCheckController dbCheck and a local privilege escalation via publishCaCert.hzn and gatherConfig.hzn; allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute system commands as root.
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 vRealize Operations Manager, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute system commands.
An authentication bypass vulnerability present in com.vmware.vcops.ui.util.MainPortalFilter class, an information disclosure vulnerability present in com.vmware.vcops.ui.action.SupportLogsAction and a local privilege escalation in the generateSupportBundle.py script; allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute system commands as root in VMware vRealize Operations Manager by using a dashboard shared link.
This module exploits an information disclosure vulnerability, a remote file download vulnerability and a directory traversal vulnerability in VMware vRealize Log Insight to deploy an agent with root privileges.
Using the VMWare VMCI Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability it is possible run code in the host machine. This module sends a malformed message through hardware port to host exploiting the vmware-vmx.exe process and installing an agent.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the vielib.dll of the VMWare application. The module will run a malicious website in the CORE IMPACT console and wait for a user to connect and trigger the exploit.
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.
A reverse proxy bypass vulnerability allows attackers to access restricted endpoints as declared in the analytics-proxy.conf file.
Combined with a unrestricted file upload vulnerability present in the DataAppAgentController class, when using the action=collect parameter, allows attackers to execute systems commands as root.
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.
VMware vCenter Server Java JMX-RMI Remote Code Execution Exploit
VMware vCenter Server is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to take advantage of an insecure deployment of the JMX/RMI service used to manage and monitor the Java Virtual Machine. By exploiting known methods, it is possible to remotely load an MLet file from an attacker controlled web server that points at a, also controlled, jar file.
Due to an unauthenticated endpoint that leverages XStream for input serialization in VMware NSX Manager, an attacker can get remote code execution in the context of 'root' user account on the appliance.
The vulnerability exists within the way that Internet Explorer instantiates GET Extension Factory COM objects, which are not intended to be created inside of the browser. The object does not initialize properly, and this leads to a memory corruption vulnerability.
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 Horizon Connection Server, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute system commands.
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability on VMware Fusion. 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.
The VMware vSphere API contains a denial of service vulnerability. This issue allows an unauthenticated user to send a maliciously crafted API request and disable the host daemon. Exploitation of the issue would prevent management activities on the host but any virtual machines running on the host would be unaffected. This update adds the correct CVE number.
A security vulnerability was found in the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) subsystem, allowing an unauthenticated remote DoS. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted request is sent to the vSphere API by an unauthenticated user.
VMWare Aria Operations for Networks evictPublishedSupportBundles Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
Unauthenticated OS Command Injection in evictPublishedSupportBundles function of ScriptUtils class of VMWare Aria Operations for Networks (aka vRealize Network Insight)