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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
Xoops mydirname Remote Code Execution Exploit
Input passed to the mydirname parameter in xoops_lib/modules/protector/oninstall.php, xoops_lib/modules/protector/onupdate.php, xoops_lib/modules/protector/notification.php, and xoops_lib/modules/protector/onuninstall.php is not properly sanitised before being used in an eval() statement. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code. Successful exploitation requires that register_globals is enabled.
Linux
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Zabbix Remote Code Execution Exploit
A Remote Code Execution issue has been found in Zabbix version 1.6.2 and no authentication is required in order to exploit this vulnerability. Magic Quotes must be turned off in order to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: Magic quotes is no longer supported by PHP starting with PHP 6.0
Linux, Mac OS X
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Zen Cart record_company Remote Code Execution Exploit
Zen Cart is prone to a vulnerability that attackers can leverage to execute arbitrary code. This issue occurs in the 'admin/record_company.php' script. Specifically, the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input to the 'frmdt_content' parameter of the 'record_company_image' array.
Input passed to the SECURITY_FILE parameter in dm-albums/template/album.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
SAMBA trans2 exploit
An anonymous user can gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow caused by a StrnCpy() into a char array (fname) using a non-constant length (namelen).
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing RPC requests through the LSA RPC interface in Samba 3.x. The exploit is triggered by sending a specially crafted RPC LsarLookupSids request to a vulnerable computer. After successful exploitation an agent will be deployed. This agent will inherit the user identity and capabilities of the samba server. However, the euid (as opposite to the uid) of the agent may be not that of the super user (usually is "nobody"), and by using the setuid module (see setuid module documentation), it can be changed to zero (root).
This module exploits a command injection error in Samba 3. For this exploit to work, the "username map script" option must be enabled on smb.conf, the samba configuration file. The agent will normally run as the "nobody" user, and will have limited capabilities.
Sami FTP Server Authentication Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Sami FTP Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the authentication process. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending an overly long, specially-crafted password to the affected server and waiting for the administrator of Sami FTP Server to set focus on the GUI of the program in order to deploy an agent.
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the waHTTP.exe (SAP DB Web Server) component included with the SAP DB. The exploit is triggered by sending an unauthenticated, specially crafted HTTP request to the default port 9999/TCP.
An internal memory buffer may be overrun while handling "site chmod" command with an overly long filename. This condition may be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the serv-u process, typically administrator or system. This bug requires the FTP user to have write privileges on at least one directory to be exploited. The Serv-U server will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
Oracle Business Process Management Cross Site Scripting Exploit
There is a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack. An attacker able to cause a user to follow a specially crafted malicious link may be able to recover session identifiers or exploit browser vulnerabilities. The template parameter is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
OpenSite Weak Authentication Exploit
This module exploits an authentication vulnerability in OpenSite 2.1. The function init in origin/libs/user.php checks for a matching origin_hash cookie. However, this cookie can be bruteforced in at most 2^32 tries for a known username. Actually, the number of attempts could be significantly reduced knowing that we do not have to check for time in the future, and long past. This works for OpenSite 2.1 and below. It has to be executed against the root directory of OpenSite.
Exploits / Authentication Weakness / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
MyBB Privilege Escalation Exploit
A vulnerability has been reported in MyBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed via the "birthdayprivacy" parameter to inc/datahandlers/user.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. Successful exploitation requires a valid user account. The vulnerability is reported in MyBB 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.7. This modules gives to a normal user, admin privileges.
Exploits / Authentication Weakness / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
VERITAS Backup Exec Agent exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent 9.0 through 10.0 for Windows, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CONNECT_CLIENT_AUTH request with authentication method type 3 (Windows credentials) and a long password argument. This module only works with localagent set as source.
NetBackup Java user-interface is affected by a remote format string vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious request that contains format specifiers. A successful attack may result in crashing the server or lead to arbitrary code execution. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation with SYSTEM or superuser privileges.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Vermillion FTP Daemon, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error with the handling of PORT commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted command passed to the affected server.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
WarFTPd USER-PASS Overflow exploit
WarFTPd is a popular FTP server for Windows systems. WarFTPd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the way it handles the PASS command. This bug will be exploited in order to install an agent into the target machine. The WarFTPd server will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
Exploits a vulnerability in the Real VNC server to bypass the password authentication. A compatible VNC client is required. This exploit proxies TCP connections to a remote (or local) VNC server and monitors the list of supported authentication methods of the server. Connecting clients will receive a dummy list consisting of only one authentication method (no password). Unlike other exploits, this module does not deploy any agents.
POODLE TLS1.x to SSLv3 Downgrading Vulnerability Exploit
Before using this module please consider that this is not an actual one-step exploit but a tool that allows our community to confirm if a target infrastructure is vulnerable to Poodle attack by executing a PoC (Proof of Concept). This module is not meant to be used against a victim like most Impact exploits are. Further, to just scan your network for weak ciphers, see the "Test SSL Ciphers" in Impact's Web tab.