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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 Hekate Remote Code Execution Webapp Exploit
This module chains 3 vulnerabilities to deploy an agent in VMware Workspace ONE Access that will run with root user privileges. The first vulnerability is an authentication bypass vulnerability present in OAuth2TokenResourceController Access Control Service (ACS). The second vulnerability a JDBC Injection in DBConnectionCheckController dbCheck that allow to execute remote system commands. The third vulnerability is a local privilege escalation using the publishCaCert.hzn and gatherConfig.hzn scripts.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
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VMware Workspace ONE Access Hekate Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module chains 3 vulnerabilities to deploy an agent in VMware Workspace ONE Access that will run with root user privileges. The first vulnerability is an authentication bypass vulnerability present in OAuth2TokenResourceController Access Control Service (ACS). The second vulnerability a JDBC Injection in DBConnectionCheckController dbCheck that allow to execute remote system commands. The third vulnerability is a local privilege escalation using the publishCaCert.hzn and gatherConfig.hzn scripts.
This module exploits a Zoho ManageEngine Password Manager Pro present in the org.apache.xmlrpc.parser.XmlRpcRequestParser class of Zoho ManageEngine Password Manager Pro. The deployed agent will run with SYSTEM privileges.
Microsoft Windows SMBv3 FileNormalizedNameInformation DoS
This module triggers a null pointer dereference vulnerability in the SMB service by sending a malformed FileNormalizedNameInformation SMBv3 request over a named pipe. For most systems, this attack requires authentication, except in the special case of Windows Domain Controllers, where unauthenticated users can always open named pipes as long as they can establish an SMB session.
This module exploits a server side request forgery present in getKeyInfoData function of oracle.security.xmlsec.keys.RetrievalMethod. Chained with a deserialization vulnerability present in the ADF Faces framework to deploy an agent in the system running Oracle Access Manager.
Linux Kernel Netfilter Dup Netdev OOB Write Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
net/netfilter/nf_dup_netdev.c in the Linux kernel 5.4 through 5.6.10 allows local users to gain privileges because of a heap out-of-bounds write. This is related to nf_tables_offload.
Microsoft Windows Networks File System 4.1 Remote DoS
Microsoft Windows could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or BSOD the system, caused by a design flaw in the Network File System component.
An attacker can abuse the batch-requests plugin to send requests to bypass the IP restriction of Admin API. A default configuration of Apache APISIX (with default API key) is vulnerable to remote code execution
This module exploits a OGNL injection vulnerability present in the xwork jar file of Atlassian Confluence. The deployed agent will run with the confluence user privileges in linux and with NT AUTHORITY\\NETWORK SERVICE in windows.
Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft MSDT, which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by convincing an unsuspecting user to open a malicious document.
This module exploits a server-side template injection vulnerability present in the customError.ftl filter of VMware Workspace ONE Access. The deployed agent will run with horizon user privileges.
This module exploits a server-side template injection vulnerability present in the customError.ftl filter of VMware Workspace ONE Access. The deployed agent will run with horizon user privileges.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
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Spring Framework Spring4Shell Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module uses an unsafe data binding used to populate an object from request parameters to set a Tomcat specific ClassLoader in Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux applications in order to upload and execute a JSP file in the Tomcat virtual file system webapps directory.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
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Linux Kernel watch_queue Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit
An out-of-bounds (OOB) memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel's watch_queue event notification subsystem. This flaw can overwrite parts of the kernel state, potentially allowing a local user to gain privileged access or cause a denial of service on the system.
Veeam Backup and Replication ExecuteUploadManagerPerformUpload Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits an authentication bypass in Veeam.Backup.ServiceLib.CForeignInvokerNegotiateAuthenticator.Authenticate. Then a file upload present in ExecuteUploadManagerPerformUpload is used to copy the Web.config file to the Webapp root foler in order to extract the machineKey values to create a ysoserial.NET payload to execute commands. The deployed agent will run with the privileges of the "IIS Worker Process" process (NT AUTHORITY\\NETWORK SERVICE).