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
MS SMB 2.0 Negociate Protocol Request Remote Exploit Update 2 This update uses two different methods to exploit the targets, and it also improves the exploited target stability when repairing the SMB service.



This module exploits a vulnerability on srv2.sys via a SMB 2 malformed packet.
Windows Exploits / Remote 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
VERITAS NetBackup BPJava Exploit update NetBackup Java user-interface is affected by a remote format string vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious request that contains format specifiers. This module exploits this vulnerability and installs an agent. This update adds support for Linux. Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
MSRPC SRVSVC NetrpPathCanonicalize (MS06-040) exploit update This module exploits a remotely exploitable vulnerability in Windows' Server Service (MS06-040) over Microsoft DCERPC (ports 139 and 445). This update

adds support for Windows XP SP0 and SP1.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Windows Mailslot DoS Update The server driver (srv.sys) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Server 2003 SP1 and earlier, and XP SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted packet on an SMB PIPE that triggers a null dereference.

While investigating the Microsoft Server Service Mailslot heap overflow vulnerability reported in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-035 we discovered a second bug in the server service. This module exploits this vulnerability.

For more info go to

http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=562&idxseccion=10
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Oracle Application Testing Suite UploadServlet Servlet Remote Code Execution Exploit A vulnerability exists in the UploadServlet servlet. By providing a filename header containing a directory traversal, an attacker can upload a file to an arbitrary location on the system.

This module abuses the auto deploy feature in the server in order to achieve remote code execution.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Remote Exploit This module exploits a remote memory corruption on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack by sending a specially crafted sequence of packets to the affected application. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
IBM Lotus Domino iCalendar Organizer Buffer Overflow Exploit A stack-based buffer overflow exists in the nRouter.exe component of IBM Lotus Domino when parsing the ORGANIZER field of an iCalendar invitation. This can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted e-mail to the Lotus Domino SMTP server.

Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
nginx Encoded Directory Trasversal Denial of Service Exploit nginx 0.8.36 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain encoded directory traversal sequences that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using the "%c0.%c0." sequence. Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
HP Storage Data Protector MSG_PROTOCOL Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the OmniInet.exe service included in the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector application by sending a malformed MSG_PROTOCOL packet. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft WINS Name Validation Exploit Update Exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft WINS server.

This update improves the reliability of the exploit when using Reuse Connection method.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Fujitsu SystemcastWizard Lite PXE Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the Fujitsu SystemcastWizard application by sending a specially crafted packet to the port 4011/UDP. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Mercury PH Server Module Buffer Overflow Exploit This module allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing the Mercury Mail Transport System.



The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within Mercury/32 PH Server Module (mercuryh.dll). This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed size memory buffer. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command.


Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol BlueKeep Use After Free Exploit Update A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services formerly known as Terminal Services when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests, aka 'Bluekeep'.In this update more supported versions were added. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact
NaviCOPA Web Server Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of HTTP GET requests. This may allow execution of arbitrary code by sending an overly long, specially crafted HTTP GET request to the server.

Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
OracleDB TNS Listener Remote Poisoning Vulnerability Detector Oracle Database Server is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to poison the data handled by the remote 'TNS Listener' component of the application.

This module tries to verify if the vulnerability is present in the 'TNS Listener' component of the database server, without deploying an agent.
Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact
Debian OpenSSL Predictable Random Number Generation Exploit Update This module exploits the random number generator in Debian's OpenSSL package being predictable. This vulnerability is used to generate SSH keys and to install an agent into the target host.



This update contains:

-Corrections of some documentation issues.

-Performance optimizations.

-New parameter for user's preferences.

Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Now SMS MMS Gateway Web Authorization Buffer Overflow Exploit A vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing the web interface of Now SMS MMS Gateway.

Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Lepide Auditor Suite createdb Web Console Database Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit The application allows an attacker to specify a server to perform authentication. That server also allows to execute controlled SQL directly against the database.

This module abuses of the previous vulnerabilities in order execute an agent as SYSTEM.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact
DiskBoss Enterprise GET Buffer Overflow Exploit Disk Sorter Enterprise server is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability when handling a crafted GET request, this can trigger an overflow in a finite-sized internal memory buffer, and install an agent with SYSTEM privileges. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact
Sun Java Web Console format string exploit This module exploits a format string vulnerability in the Sun Java Web Console and installs an agent.

Solaris Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
CA BrightStor Tape Engine exploit for Windows Vista We are pleased to announce the availability of the first CORE IMPACT exploit for Windows Vista along with initial support for Windows Vista as an exploit target. The first exploit we are releasing is an exploit for a vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup v11.5 (CVE-2007-0169). More exploits for Vista will follow as part of our exploit update service.



This update adds support for Windows Vista as a target for the exploit, and includes modifications to the Windows agent and accompanying payloads to run on all previously supported versions of Windows.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Cisco Prime Infrastructure Java Object Deserialization Remote Code Execution Exploit Cisco Prime Infrastructure 1.2.0 through 2.2(2) and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM) 1.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted deserialized data in an HTTP POST request, aka Bug ID CSCuw03192. Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
ActiveMQ STOMP Protocol Unsafe Deserialization Exploit JMS Object messages within Apache ActiveMQ depend on Java Serialization for marshaling/unmashaling of the message payload. This lead to execution of untrusted code when a specially crafted object is received.



This update introduces an exploit that will attempt to connect using the STOMP protocol and abuse the vulnerability to execute a Core Impact agent in the vulnerable system.
Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Reprise License Manager akey Buffer Overflow Vulnerability The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling the

"akey" POST parameter related to /goform/activate_doit, which can be

exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially

crafted HTTP request.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional