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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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Exploit Type
Product Name
ALLMediaServer Buffer Overflow Exploit
A stack overflow found in ALLMediaServer by supplying a malformed network request.
After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. Usually Apache is ran as the user nobody, or some other low privileged user. After exploitation, the agent will be running as this user. Apache 1.3 through 1.3.24, and Apache 2.0 through 2.0.36, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a chunk-encoded HTTP request that causes Apache to use an incorrect size.
After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. Usually Apache is ran as the user nobody, or some other low privileged user. After exploitation, the agent will be running as this user.
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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Apache Struts. The specific vulnerability is in the ParametersInterceptor, which allows a direct manipulation of the ClassLoader and as a result an attacker can execute arbitrary Java code in the target machine.
The DefaultActionMapper class in Apache Struts 2 supports a method for short-circuit navigation state changes by prefixing parameters like "redirect:" or "redirect-action:". The information contained in these prefixes is not properly sanitized before being evaluated as OGNL expressions on the server side, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code on the server. This module exploits the vulnerability in any web application built on top of vulnerable versions of the Apache Struts 2 framework.
The best practice for web applications built on top of the Apache Struts 2 framework is to switch off Developer Mode (struts.devMode parameter in the struts.xml configuration file) before going into production. When devMode is left enabled, attackers can gain remote code execution by setting the 'debug=command' URL parameter and sending OGNL expressions through the 'expression' URL parameter. This module takes advantage of this misconfiguration scenario in order to deploy an agent in the target system.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Apache Struts 2. The specific vulnerability happens when using the "includeParams" attribute in the URL or A tag.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Apache Tomcat buffer overflow exploit
Stack-based buffer overflow in the map_uri_to_worker function (native/common/jk_uri_worker_map.c) in mod_jk.so for Apache Tomcat JK Web Server Connector 1.2.19 and 1.2.20, as used in Tomcat 4.1.34 and 5.5.20, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long URL that triggers the overflow in a URI worker map routine.
Apple CUPS HP-GL2 filter Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits an arbitrary index array vulnerability in the cupsd service when parsing HPGL filetypes running on certain versions of Apple Mac OS X and Linux. The vulnerability is exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted IPP request packet to install an agent.
This exploit takes advantage of various vulnerabilities and default permissions in the affected versions of the Arkeia Network Backup Software. In the target setup the exploit attempts to gather specific information about the target: the remote operating system, the Arkeia Network Backup version, the target system's name; and attempts to download and analyze a loaded PE file by the Arkeia Network Backup Client to find certain patterns of reusable code loaded in memory.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the T38FaxRateManagement parameter when parsing SIP/SDP requests in 1.4.x prior to 1.4.3. After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually run as root.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing ASUS Remote Console. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within ASUS Remote Console. A buffer-overflow vulnerability is located in the function which gets the data received from the client, store it in a stack buffer of about 1024 bytes and checks the presence of an end of line delimiter (carriage return).
This module exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in the XWork component of Atlassian FishEye, by sending specially crafted HTTP requests to the port 8060/TCP. The ParametersInterceptor class of the XWork framework, part of the Struts 2 web framework, as shipped with Atlassian FishEye, does not properly restrict access to server-side objects. This can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to modify server-side objects and finally execute arbitrary commands via specially crafted OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language) expressions.
A path traversal vulnerability affects the Issue Collector plugin in Atlassian JIRA. This module exploits that vulnerability to achieve remote code execution. The installed agent will have SYSTEM privileges.
AT-TFTP Server Long Filename Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability during the processing of TFTP Read/Write request packet types. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted packet with an overly long filename field.
Avaya Windows Portable Device Manager (WinPDM) Buffer Overfow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Avaya Windows Portable Device Manager (WinPDM). A remote user can send specially crafted data to UDP port 3217 (UniteHostRouter.EXE) to trigger a stack overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
AVID Media Composer Phonetic Indexer Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing AVID Media Composer. A remote user can send specially crafted data to TCP port 4659/4660 (AvidPhoneticIndexer.exe) to trigger a stack overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing BadBlue. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in ext.dll when processing an overly long PassThru command. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command.
Bash Environment Variables Remote Code Execution Exploit for SSH (CVE-2014-6271)
A vulnerability in GNU Bash when processing trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment. This vulnerability can be leveraged to bypass restricted SSH access (i.e.
Bash Environment Variables Remote Code Execution Exploit for SSH (CVE-2014-6278)
A vulnerability in GNU Bash when processing trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted environment. This vulnerability can be leveraged to bypass restricted SSH access (i.e.