Core Certified Exploits

Library of expert validated exploits for safe and effective pen tests

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.

Core Impact users can save time by finding all the up-to-date exploits they need in one place. We provide a robust library of exploits designed to enable pen testers to safely and efficiently conduct successful penetration tests. Whether written by our own internal team or by a third party like ExCraft, you can trust they have been thoroughly tested and validated by our experts.

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
Remote Exploits Invalid Characters Update This update corrects a typo defining invalid characters for the egg in some remote exploits, and improves the reliability of Now SMS MMS Gateway Web Authorization Buffer Overflow Exploit on Windows 2000 targets. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
DXStudio Firefox Plugin Remote Command Execution Exploit This module exploits a remote command execution vulnerability in DX Studio Player plugin for Firefox via an specially crafted .dxstudio file. Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Exploit Modules Update for RPT This update applies missing attributes to a small number of exploits to ensure they are correctly selected by the Rapid Penetration Test Wizards.

Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Joomla 1.5.12 Remote Code Execution Exploit A vulnerability exists in the TinyMCE editor, included in the tiny browser plugin, which allows uploading files without authentication. This can be exploited to upload files with multiple extensions and execute arbitrary PHP code. Solaris, Linux, Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
RadAsm WindowCallProcA Pointer Hijack Exploit Update The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of .RAP files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into decoding a specially crafted .RAP file.



This update modifies the current NOCVE for the module and adds support for the new Impact 9 Client Side features.

Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Wordpress Password Reset Exploit A weakness has been reported in WordPress which can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions. The weakness is due to a bug within the password reset functionality when verifying the secret key. This can be exploited to reset the password of the first user without a key in the database (usually administrator) without providing the correct secret key. Exploits / Authentication Weakness Impact Professional
Symantec Intel Alert Originator Service Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Intel Alert Originator service by sending a specially crafted packet to the 38292/TCP port. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Awingsoft Awakening Remote Command Execution Exploit Awingsoft Awakening (aka Winds3D) Viewer, which runs as a plugin within most popular web browsers, is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable arbitrary command execution vulnerability which can be triggered by making the user visit a malicious link/website. Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Denial of Service Exploits update This update improves the way Denial of Service exploits show their success status in their module log output. Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Office Works Converter Exploit (MS09-024) This module exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Works converter that could allow remote code execution via a specially crafted Works file. Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Baofeng Storm OnBeforeVideoDownload Exploit BaoFeng Storm ActiveX control is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to adequately check boundaries on user-supplied input. Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
PeaZIP Archived File Name Handling Command Injection Exploit PeaZIP allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a compressed archive with a .TXT file whose name contains | (pipe) characters and a command. Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Adobe PDF CustomDictionaryOpen Buffer Overflow Update This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional .PDF files. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in the customdictionaryopen() method in Javascript api. This can be exploited to cause a heap overflow when a specially crafted PDF file is opened.

This update corrects the CVE number for this exploit.
Linux Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Nagios Command Injection Exploit A vulnerability has been reported in Nagios, which can be exploited by malicious users to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.



Input passed to the "ping" parameter in statuswml.cgi is not properly sanitized before being used to invoke the ping command. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands.



Additional research revealed that this parameter is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. This module exploits the XSRF vulnerability in order to install an agent using the command injection vulnerability.
Linux Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Opera file URI Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit Update Opera is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized buffer.

This update add Decouple feature.

Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft IIS MS08-006 Exploit update 3 This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability present in Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 5.1 through 6.0.



This update makes the name of the file used random to improve reliability, as well as avoid a system error when the file is used. It also adds the possibility of deploying multiple agents.
Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
Pidgin MSNSLP Arbitrary Write Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in libpurple.dll within the processing of MSNSLP messages. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow without user interaction.



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.
Windows, Linux Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
SugarCRM Remote Code Execution Exploit Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Compose Email feature in the Emails module in Sugar Community Edition (aka SugarCRM) before 5.2f allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with only an extension in its name, then accessing the file via a direct request to a modified filename under cache/modules/Emails/, as demonstrated using .php as the entire original name. Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
MSRPC WKSSVC NetrGetJoinInformation Heap Corruption DoS (MS09-041) This module exploits an improperly memory free by sending a specially crafted RPC packet to cause a DoS condition on the target machine.

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.
Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
Adobe Reader JBIG2Decode Memory Corruption Exploit update This module exploits an array indexing vulnerability in Adobe Reader when handling a specially crafted PDF file.

This update adds support for Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and improves reliability when exploiting from browsers.
Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Bopup Communications Server Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted TCP packet sent to port 19810.



Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Motorola Timbuktu Pro PlughNTCommand Stack Based Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a remote stack-based buffer overflow in Motorola Timbuktu Pro by sending a long malformed string over the plughNTCommand named pipe. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
PulseAudio Privilege Escalation Exploit This module exploits a race condition vulnerability in PulseAudio on Linux systems to gain elevated privileges. Linux Exploits / Local Impact Professional
FreeBSD mount Local Privilege Escalation Exploit FreeBSD is prone to multiple stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the kernel fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.



If the system is configured to allow unprivileged users to mount file

systems, it is possible for a local adversary to exploit this

vulnerability and execute code in the context of the kernel.
FreeBSD Exploits / Local Impact Professional
FreeBSD mount Local Privilege Escalation Exploit FreeBSD is prone to multiple stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the kernel fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. If the system is configured to allow unprivileged users to mount file systems, it is possible for a local adversary to exploit this vulnerability and execute code in the context of the kernel. FreeBSD Exploits/Local Impact