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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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
MediaCoder LST File Buffer Overflow Exploit
A Buffer Overflow exist in Mediacoder when parsing .LST files. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Mediacoder when handling .LST files beginning with http://, when the application tries to obtain a stream from an url. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .LST file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Microsoft Windows Win32k pprFlattenRec Vulnerability Exploit Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in win32k.sys when the EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec() doesn't initialize the pointer to the next memory chunk. This update adds support to Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Windows Vista
AudioCoder contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in AudioCoder when handling .m3u files beginning with http://, when the application tries to obtain a stream from an url. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .m3u file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Google Sketchup MAC Pict Stack Corruption Exploit
Google Sketchup fails to validate the input when parsing an crafted skp file with Pict texture, leading to an arbitrary stack offset overwrite and finally to an arbitrary code execution.
Linux Kernel perf_swevent_init Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Linux kernel. The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted perf_event_open system call.
This module exploits a vulnerability in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD virtual memory system allows files to be memory-mapped. All or parts of a file can be made available to a process via its address space. The process can then access the file using memory operations rather than filesystem I/O calls. Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process (such as a debugger) may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access.
Microsoft Windows Win32k pprFlattenRec Vulnerability Exploit Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in win32k.sys when the EPATHOBJ::pprFlattenRec() doesn't initialize the pointer to the next memory chunk. This update adds support to Microsoft Windows 8.
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted PNG data in an Office document, leading to improper memory allocation.
Microsoft Internet Explorer COALineDashStyleArray Integer Overflow Exploit (MS13-037)
This module exploits an integer overflow vulnerability in the Vector Markup Language (VML) on Internet Explorer. The vulnerability exists in the handling of the dashstyle.array length for VML shapes on the vgx.dll module. This vulnerability was one of the 2013's Pwn2Own challenges. 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.
Sketchup MAC Pict Material Palette Stack Corruption Exploit
Sketchup fails to validate the input when parsing an embedded MAC Pict texture, leading to an arbitrary stack offset overwrite and finally to an arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing JPG image files and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted JPG image file.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Oracle Java taking advantages of the java.sql.DriverManager class. The specific flaw exists within the usage of java.sql.DriverManager. The issue lies in an implicit call to toString() that is made within a doPrivileged block. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user. This vulnerability was one of the 2013's Pwn2Own challenges.
This module exploits a vulnerability in MongoDB server. An arbitrary value passed as a parameter to the nativeHelper function in MongoDB server allows an attacker to control the execution flows to achieve remote code execution.
Serva TFTPD Service Large Read Requests Parsing DoS
The Serva32 TFTPD service is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing large read requests. When the application reads in a large buffer the application crashes.
Wordpress W3 Total Cache PHP Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in W3 Total Cache plugin for Wordpress. Certain macros such as mfunc allow to inject PHP code into comments. By injecting a crafted comment into a valid post an attacker can execute arbitrary PHP code on systems running vulnerable installations of W3 Total Cache.
HP Intelligent Management IctDownloadServlet Directory Traversal Exploit
This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in HP Intelligent Management Center. Due to a lack of authentication and a directory traversal vulnerability in the IctDownloadServlet component, an attacker can retrieve arbitrary files.
HP Intelligent Management FaultDownloadServlet Directory Traversal Exploit
This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in HP Intelligent Management Center. Due to a lack of authentication and a directory traversal vulnerability in the FaultDownloadServlet component, an attacker can retrieve arbitrary files.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Symantec AMS Intel Handler service by sending a malformed packet to the 38292/TCP port to crash the application.
IBM SPSS SamplePower Vsflex8l ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer overflow when a special malformed string is assigned to the ComboList or ColComboList property. The code looks for a '#'in the string then copies into a global buffer in the data section with a static size of 0x64.