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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.
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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Ultra Office Control ActiveX Exploit
The Ultra Office Control ActiveX control (OfficeCtrl.ocx) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page that passes an overly long string to the HttpUpload() method, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the current user or cause the victim's browser to crash.
A security vulnerability with the way XnView processes TAAC files may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a TAAC document that is opened or previewed by a local user to execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running XnView. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened or previewed in XnView.
The specific flaw exists within the parsing of a pm3 project file. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a call to memcpy. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the process.
Microsoft Visual Basic VBP File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Visual Basic 6 .vbp files. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in VB6.EXE within the processing of VBP archives. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
This module exploits a integer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf and libpoppler software included in most linux distributions. The vulnerability is caused by a integer overflow in the predictor calculation, which causes a buffer overflow in the stack of the StreamPredictor::getNextLine() function. The exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted file distributed via an email.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the kwedit.dll control included in the EnjoySAP application. The exploit is triggered when the PrepareToPostHTML() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Object Memory Corruption Exploit (MS10-002)
This module exploits a use-after-free vulnerability in the MSHTML component in Internet Explorer. The specific error ocurrs due to the way Internet Explorer handles objects in memory. It is possible to use a pointer in CTableRowCellsCollectionCacheItem::GetNext after it gets freed and get remote code execution.
This vulnerability was one of the 2012's Pwn2Own challenges.
This module exploits a vulnerability in McAfee Virtual Technician MVTControl, which can be abused by using the GetObject() function to load unsafe classes, therefore allowing remote code execution under the context of the user.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Corel Painter 2015 14.0.0.728 and earlier, and possibly other versions allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wacommt.dll that is located in the same folder as an .rif file.
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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Pointdev IDEAL Administration, when importing a project file, may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a crafted IPJ document that is opened by a local user to execute code on the system with the privileges of the user running Pointdev IDEAL Administration. This can be exploited to cause a stack based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is imported.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the HyleosChemView.ocx control included in the Hyleos ChemView ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
Microsoft Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-015)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Windows Media Player when parsing a malformed DVR-MS 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.
The ExceptionDelegator component of the XWork framework, part of the Apache Struts 2 web framework, as shipped with Atlassian FishEye, interprets parameters values as OGNL expressions when handling a type conversion error.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server by tricking a logged-in user with administrator privileges within the FishEye site to visit a specially crafted web page.
Internet Explorer Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Exploit
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing a deleted object.
Triologic Player M3U Unicode SEH Buffer Overflow Exploit
Triologic Media Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Triologic Player when handling misleading m3u files. This situation leads to a buffer overflow and allows an attacker to overwrite an SEH Pointer and get control of execution. This is an UNICODE overflow so special shellcode must be considered. This vulnerability can be exploited via a specially crafted .m3u file.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within flt_BMP.dll when processing BMP images and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via specially crafted "biPlanes" and "biBitCount" fields.