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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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Linux X.org MIT-SHM Extension Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a integer overflow condition on local X.org servers with MIT-SHM extension activated.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ienipp.ocx control included in Novell iPrint Client v4.32 and prior. The exploit is triggered when the ExecuteRequest() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
This module exploits a vulnerability in ACDSee Products (ID_X.apl plugin). The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in ID_X.apl within the processing of xpm files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
Stack-based buffer overflow in the DoWebMenuAction function in the IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX control (ImShExt.dll) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. This update improves the exploit reliability.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing the Mercury Mail Transport System. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within Mercury/32 SMTP Server Module (mercurys.dll) when processing arguments to the AUTH CRAM-MD5 command. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
Microsoft Works File Parsing WPS Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Office (.WPS files). The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error within the processing of WPS files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in dBpowerAMP within the processing of M3U files. dBpowerAMP fails to check the length of the string in M3U playlist archives, allowing an attacker to cause a stack overflow in order to execute arbitrary code.
Linux Kernel Vmsplice() Privilege Escalation Exploit
Exploits a missing verification of parameters within the vmsplice_to_user(), copy_from_user_mmap_sem(), and get_iovec_page_array() functions in fs/splice.c before using them to perform certain memory operations. This can be exploited to e.g. read or write to arbitrary kernel memory via a specially crafted vmsplice() system call, and allows an unprivileged process to elevate privileges to root.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in CoolPlayer within the processing of M3U files. CoolPlayer fails to check the length of the string in M3U playlist archives, allowing an attacker to cause a stack overflow in order to execute arbitrary code.
This module exploits an Off-by-one error in the LDAP scheme handling in the Rewrite module (mod_rewrite) in Apache and installs an agent into the target host.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in wordperfect within the processing of WPD files. Wordperfect X3 fails to check the length of the printer selection (.PRS) filename stored inside Wordperfect documents, allowing an attacker to cause a stack overflow in order to execute arbitrary code.
This update changes the injection method of the agent.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Yahoo Music Jukebox ActiveX Control(datagrid.dll). When the AddButton() method processes a long string argument, a stack based buffer overflow occurs allowing execution of arbitrary code.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the database service (fbserver.exe) of the FireBird SQL application. The exploit triggers a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted packet with a malformed "username" value to port 3050/TCP of the vulnerable system and installs an agent if successful.
This module exploits a vulnerability in IrfanView FlashPix plugin (.fpx files). The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in fpx.dll within the processing of fpx files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in wordperfect within the processing of WPD files. Wordperfect X3 fails to check the length of the printer selection (.PRS) filename stored inside Wordperfect documents, allowing an attacker to cause a stack overflow in order to execute arbitrary code.
VLC is able to handle the subtitles automatically in a very simple way,it just checks the presence of ssa files with the same name of the loaded video and a possible subtitles folder.The functions which handle the MicroDvd, SSA and Vplayer subtitle formats are vulnerable to some stack based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities which can allow an attacker to execute malicious code. This update adds support for Opera and Mozilla Firefox.
This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sourcefire Snort DCE/RPC preprocessor. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Snort process.
This update adds support for Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and FreeBSD 6.2 on Impact 7.5
This module exploits a vulnerability in Winamp Player when parsing the Ultravox Streaming metadata. This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.