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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.
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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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Title
Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
RealNetworks Arcade Games ActiveX Control Exploit
This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer with a vulnerable StubbyUtil.InstallerDlg.1 ActiveX Control) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by sending a specially crafted HTML page which exploits the Real Networks Arcade Game's ActiveX control. ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Ref: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17149/
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the DECT dissector of Wireshark. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Wireshark executable to crash or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Wireshark.
This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Wireshark when opening a crafted .PCAP file, resulting in arbitrary code execution. This module bypass DEP using ROP techniques.
VLC Media Player libmodplug Buffer Overflow Exploit
VLC Media Player is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of user supplied data. An attacker is able to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user when opening malicious .S3M media files.
Novell File Reporter Agent XML Tag Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell File Reporter. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/3037.
GenBroker runs as a Windows service on port 38080 when Iconics Genesis 32 is installed. This service is affected by an integer overflow vulnerability during the handling of inbound packets, caused by the allocation of the memory needed for the creation of an array trusting the number of elements passed by the client.
Windows
Denial of Service/Remote
Impact
Wordtrainer ORD File Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in Wordtrainer 3.0 within the processing of .ORD files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when the victim opens a specially crafted file with an overly long supplied data.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
7T Interactive Graphical SCADA System IGSSdataServer Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a remote stack-based buffer overflow in IGSSdataServer by sending a malformed packet to the 12401/TCP port.
This module exploits a remote vulnerability in the TCPUploadServer service included in the Movicon 11 application to install an agent by writing and running an executable file.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Microsoft Windows DNS Resolution Remote DoS (MS11-030)
This module exploits a memory corruption in the DNS Client Service by sending a specially crafted LLMNR broadcast query to crash the service. 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.
Microsoft PowerPoint Invalid TimeColorBehaviorContainer Record Code Execution Exploit
Microsoft Powerpoint parses a record associated with animation. If a container holds a specific record type, the application will explicitly trust a length used in this record to calculate a pointer for copying floating point numbers to. This can be used to write outside of an allocated buffer and will lead to code execution under the context of the application. 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the BarcodeWiz.dll module included in the Barcodewiz application. The exploit is triggered when the LoadProperties() method processes a malformed argument resulting in a memory corruption. 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 version fixes a bug in the classname of the onelink feature.
Adobe Flash Player SWF File Memory Corruption Exploit
Adobe Flash Player is prone to a memory corruption vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted .SWF file, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by convincing an unsuspecting user to visit a malicious web site. This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during April 2011. 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.
Microsoft Windows SMTP Server MX Record Vulnerability DoS (MS10-024) Update
This update fixes some mistakes in the module documentation. This module exploits a vulnerability on Microsoft Windows SMTP Server 64 bits sending a malformed DNS response from a spoofed DNS Server.
Microsoft Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-015) Update
This module exploits a memory corruption in Windows Media Player when parsing a malformed DVR-MS file. This update fixes an issue in the agent connector.
Postgres Plus Advanced Server DBA Management Server Remote Code Execution Exploit
The DBA Management Server component of EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server does not restrict access to the underlying JBoss JMX Console. This can be abused by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the BarcodeWiz.dll module included in the Barcodewiz application. The exploit is triggered when the LoadProperties() method processes a malformed argument resulting in a memory corruption. 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.
An ActiveX control in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.4, and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.2 does not properly initialize an unspecified object component during parsing of a CDDA URI, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and application crash) via a long URI.
The sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader class of Oracle Java does not properly validate if the URL of a Java class file matches the "codebase" parameter while loading applets. This vulnerability allows an applet to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox without restrictions, which can be exploited to install an agent on the target machine.
A code execution vulnerability exists in the way that VLC handles specially crafted .NSV (Nullsoft streaming video file) files when opening in Internet Explorer 6 or 7.