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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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Product Name
Microsoft Excel Hlink Overflow Exploit Update
This update adds support for Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 and Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Excel file via a hyperlink bigger than 8000 bytes of length.
This module exploits an arbitrary file download and execute vulnerability in the Altiris.AeXNSPkgDL.1 ActiveX Control included in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution.
A boundary error exists in the dhost.dll component of Novell eDirectory post authentication when processing list of modules. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted request with an overly long module name.
A vulnerability has been identified in ISC BIND, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused due to the "dns_db_findrdataset()" function failing when the prerequisite section of a dynamic update message contains a record of type "ANY" and where at least one RRset for this FQDN exists on the server, which could allow attackers to cause a vulnerable server to exit when receiving a specially crafted dynamic update message sent to a zone for which the server is the master.
Anti Keylogger Elite Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in Anti keylogger elite when the 0x002224A4 function is invoked with a specially crafted parameter. The IOCTL 0x002224A4 handler in the AKEProtect.sys device driver in Anti Keylogger Elite allows local users to overwrite memory and execute arbitrary code via malformed Interrupt Request Packet (Irp) parameters to obtain system privileges.
This update improves the checks to verify whether the vulnerable application is installed or not.
Microsoft Windows TCPIP Timestamp Remote DoS (MS09-048)
This module exploits a memory corruption in the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP implementation by sending a sequence of TCP/IP packets with a specially crafted Timestamp values.
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. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
Alleycode HTML Editor fails when optimizing certain malformed HTML pages,leading to a stack-based buffer overflow that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe PDF FlateDecode Argument Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader when handling a specially crafted PDF file.
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. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of Error Packet for overwrite all the .bss section and some portion of the .idata section.
Microsoft Office Drawing Format Shape Exploit (MS09-062)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Microsoft Office Powerpoint when parsing a .PPT document with a specially crafted msofbtOPT record type. 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.
Cerberus FTP Server is prone to a denial-of-service. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of overly long arguments passed via FTP commands.
osCommerce Online Merchant 2.2 RC2a is vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Upload without the need to be authenticated. This leads to arbitrary PHP code execution in the context of the webserver.
This module tries to install a RFI agent if the Web Application is vulnerable. It will fail if the webserver is not allowed to write on the document root of the vulnerable web application.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact Professional
EMC Captiva QuickScan KeyHelp ActiveX Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the keyhelp.ocx control included in EMC Captiva QuickScan application. The vulnerability is triggered when the JumpURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
Linux Kernel Sock_Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation (sock_sendpage function) on a PF_PPPOX socket
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the logic used to authenticate a user to the administration server running on port 443. The script login.php does not properly sanitize the 'username' variable before using it in a database query. A specially crafted 'username' allows unauthorized attackers to log in with full administrative capabilities.
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability on VMware Fusion.
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. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
This exploit forces the IIS process inetinfo.exe to throw an unhandled exception. IIS' behavior depends on the operating system version, its configuration and the system-wide debugger specified in the registry.
This update adds more supported platforms to the exploit.
MS SMB 2.0 Negociate Protocol Request Remote BSOD Exploit Update
This update improves the exploit reliability.
This module exploits a vulnerability on srv2.sys via a SMB 2 malformed packet.
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.