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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.
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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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The specific flaw exists within the 'factory' object's loadExtensionFactory method. The issue lies in a failure to validate the size of an attacker-supplied input before copying it into a fixed-size buffer on the stack. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
Linux apport Race Condition Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Linux apport application. The apport application can be forced to drop privileges to uid 0 and write a corefile anywhere on the system. This can be used to write a corefile with crafted contents in a suitable location to gain root privileges.
This updates improves the way some files are cleaned up after a failed exploitation attempt.
Microsoft Windows CreateWindow Function Callback Exploit (MS10-032)
This module exploits a vulnerability in win32k.sys when a "window" is created.
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.
The specific flaw exists within the VPORTSDK.VPortSDKCtrl.1 ActiveX control. By passing an overly long string to the GetClientReg method's Name parameter.
The file names showed in WinRAR when opening a ZIP file come from the central directory, but the file names used to extract and open contents come from the Local File Header. This allows to spoof file names when opening ZIP files
QuickView Plus Client vsacs Buffer Overflow Exploit
Quick View Plus contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Quick View Plus when handling .MDB files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .MDB file.
This module runs a malicious web server on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it by opening the crafted MDB file with Quick View Plus.
Adobe Flash Player SWF Load Crafted Module Exploit Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a SWF file and this load a crafted dll module. This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
This update improves the reliability of the exploit.
The default Java security properties configuration did not restrict access
to certain com.sun.org.glassfish packages. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user.
Avaya IP Office Customer Call Reporter ImageUpload Exploit
The specific flaw exists because Avaya IP Office Customer Call Reporter allows to upload files to the webserver through ImageUpload.ashx. The uploaded files will not be stripped of their file extensions and the directory where they are saved has no scripting restrictions.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave triggered when processing a specially crafted .DIR file. This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
HP OpenView NNM OvJavaLocale Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the webappmon.exe CGI application, a component of HP OpenView Network Node Manager, by sending an HTTP request with an invalid value for the OvJavaLocale parameter.
Microsoft Excel OBJ Record Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-038)
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a crafted OBJ (0x5D) record.
Corrupts the NetBIOS Cache to allow redirection of NetBIOS and DNS names to an arbitrary IP Address. This update fixes a problem when closing the local udp port used by the module, in cases where the execution was stopped manually.
Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability Exploit (MS09-067) Update
A code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Excel handles specially crafted Excel files that include a malformed record object. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
This version add support for Microsoft Office 2007 SP2.
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 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.