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
Apple Mac OS X Samba NetWkstaTransportEnum Request Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in Mac OS X Samba server.



When a specially crafted call to "NetWkstaTransportEnum" RPC function is processed by the Samba server, it produces a heap overflow.

Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows NFS NULL Dereference DoS (MS13-014) This modules exploits a Windows kernel vulnerability in "nfssvr.sys" by sending a NFS file renaming crafted request to the target.



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
CVE-2020-13935 (Apache Tomcat DoS) The payload length in a WebSocket frame was not correctly validated in Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M6, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.36, 8.5.0 to 8.5.56 and 7.0.27 to 7.0.104 Denial of Service / Remote IOT
FlexNet License Server Manager lmgrd Buffer Overflow Exploit A stack buffer overflow exist in FlexNet License Server Manager due to the insecure usage of memcpy in the lmgrd service when handling crafted network packets. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows TCP TimeStamp Option Vulnerability DoS (MS14-031) Update This module exploits a vulnerability in "tcpip.sys" by sending a large number of TCP packets with the Time Stamp option enabled.



This update adds support to network configuration parameters.

Besides, this update includes Windows 8.1 as supported.
Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
ARSoft Visual IO SCADA DDE Server Denial of Service Remote Denial ARSoft Visual IO SCADA DDE Server Windows Denial of Service / Remote SCADA
TG8 Firewall Remote Code Execution TG8 Firewall allows remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code on the remote device Exploits / Remote IOT
New features for MSRPC exploits Added support for NT and LM hashes as authentication mechanism.

Added fragmentation support for /TCP and /SMB transports.

Added fragmentation for DCERPC over any transport.

This two different types of fragmentation can be combined or used independently.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Atlassian Jira Server/Data Center 8.16.0 - Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-26078
The number range searcher component in Jira Server and Jira Data Center
before version 8.5.14, from version 8.6.0 before version 8.13.6, and from version 8.14.0 before version 8.16.1
allows remote attackers inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via across site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Exploits / Remote SCADAPRO
Exchange X-LINK2STATE CHUNK Exploit This module exploits a heap based buffer overflow handling the X-LINK2STATE command in the SMTP service of Exchange Server. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
SMB MS05-027 DoS By sending a specially crafted SMB packet, this exploit performs a Denial of Service attack on the target machine. Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
PHP Hash Table Collisions DoS Update This module sends HTTP requests with specially crafted data making the

PHP interpreter to consume lot of resources. This attack prevents the

victim server from processing requests from legitimate clients and

probably will make the server non-operational.



This is update fixes an issue when launching the module from an agent running in a linux system.
Solaris, AIX, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
InduSoft Web Studio CEServer Remote Code Execution Exploit The flaw exists in the Remote Agent (CEServer.exe) that listens by default on TCP port 4322, the process can not perform any authentication and copy the packages designed to a fixed size buffer. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Keysight Communications Fabric Denial of Service Remote Denial Keysight Communications Fabric Windows Denial of Service / Remote SCADA
Fujitsu-Siemens ServerView Remote Command Execution ServerView has a Remote Command Execution in its Webinterface. The DBAsciiAccess CGI script provides a "ping" functionality. In the subparameter "Servername" of the parameter "Parameterlist" of this script, the IP address to be pinged is given. This IP address will be given as a parameter to the ping program without further sanitization. By adding a trailing semicolon after the IP, an attacker can add arbitrary shell commands which will be executed with the permissions of the webserver user. Exploits / Remote SCADAPRO
Microsoft Windows SMBv3 FileNormalizedNameInformation DoS Microsoft Windows SMBv3 suffers from a null pointer dereference in versions of Windows prior to the April, 2022 patch set. By sending a malformed FileNormalizedNameInformation SMBv3 request over a named pipe, an attacker can cause a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash of the Windows kernel. For most systems, this attack requires authentication, except in the special case of Windows Domain Controllers, where unauthenticated users can always open named pipes as long as they can establish an SMB session. Typically, after the BSOD, the victim SMBv3 server will reboot. Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact
Huawei DG8045 Router Credential Disclosure Vulnerability This module exploits a download the persistent settings via the web app API. FreeBSD Exploits / Remote IOT
Tenda QoS VPN Router G3 Routers Command Execution (Unauthenticated) Tenda routers G3 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a command injection vulnerability in function formSetNetCheckTools. By sending a specially-crafted request using the hostName parameter, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system. Exploits / Remote IOT
Barco Control Room Management Suite File Path Traversal Vulnerability Barco Control Room Management Suite File Path Traversal Vulnerability Exploits / Remote SCADA
ICL ScadaFlex II SCADA Controllers SC-1/SC-2 Remote File Delete You can delete any file on the device that is not authenticated.
On ICL ScadaFlex II SCADA Controller SC-1 and SC-2 1.03.07 devices, unauthenticated remote attackers can overwrite, delete, or create files.
Exploits / Remote SCADA
Microsoft Windows Event Logging Service DoS A denial of service vulnerability exists in Event Logging Service when an authenticated attacker connects to the target system and sends specially crafted requests. Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact
DCERPC Based Exploits Reliability Fix This update enhances the reliability of DCERPC based exploits. Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Trojan Agents Enhancements Rev 02 This update improves the reliability and AV Evasion of Agents generated with modules: . Package and Register Agent . Send Agent by E-Mail . Serve Agent in Web Server Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
AV Evasion Improvements This update contains improvements to our agents to reduce detection rates against some antiviruses. Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft WINS Exploit (MS08-034) Update A memory corruption vulnerability in the ChkNtfSock function of wins.exe allows remote code execution.

This update adds support for Windows 2000 Server SP4, Windows 2003 Server SP1 and SP2.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional