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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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Microsoft IE CFunctionPointer Memory Corruption Exploit Update
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability when Internet Explorer attempts to access an object that has been deleted. This update adds support for Windows Vista SP0 and SP1.
Microsoft HTML Help Workshop HHP Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft HTML Workshop. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Microsoft HTML Help Workshop within the processing of .HHP files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened.
Microsoft Host Integration Server Remote DoS (MS11-082)
Microsoft Host Integration Server is prone to a remote denial of service due to improper memory handling by the process SnaBase.exe when parsing UDP packets arriving on port 1478.
Microsoft Group Policy Preferences Exploit (MS14-025)
The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share.
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in GDI in Microsoft Windows, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted EMF image file. This update adds support for Windows XP Professional SP0 and Windows XP Professional SP1
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in GDI in Microsoft Windows, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted EMF image file. WARNING: This is an early release module.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Component (ipnathlp.dll) when Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, sending a specially crafted DNS query.
Microsoft Expression Design wintab32 DLL Hijacking Exploit (MS12-022)
Microsoft Expression Design is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named wintab32.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder than a .DESIGN file. 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.
Microsoft Exchange Validation Key Remote OS Command Injection Exploit Update Improvements
.NET deserialization vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Control Panel web page allows authenticated attackers to execute OS commands with SYSTEM privileges.
The lack of randomization in the validationKey and decryptionKey values at installation allows an attacker to create a crafted viewstate to execute OS commands via .NET deserialization.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Exchange Validation Key Remote OS Command Injection Exploit Update
.NET deserialization vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Control Panel web page allows authenticated attackers to execute OS commands with SYSTEM privileges.
The lack of randomization in the validationKey and decryptionKey values at installation allows an attacker to create a crafted viewstate to execute OS commands via .NET deserialization.
This update adds payload generation error detection and dependencies documentation.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Exchange Validation Key Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
.NET deserialization vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Control Panel web page allows authenticated attackers to execute OS commands with SYSTEM privileges.
The lack of randomization in the validationKey and decryptionKey values at installation allows an attacker to create a crafted viewstate to execute OS commands via .NET deserialization.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Exchange TypedBinaryFormatter Deserialization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
A deserialization vulnerability present in the TypedBinaryFormatter class allows authenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands with SYSTEM user privileges.
Microsoft Exchange Proxyshell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
A combination of a path confusion that leads to an authentication bypass (ACL), an elevation of privilege and an arbitrary file write vulnerability, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges in Microsoft Exchange Server.
Microsoft Exchange Proxylogon Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
A combination of a server-side request forgery vulnerability and an arbitrary file write vulnerability, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges in Microsoft Exchange Server.
This update exploits a deserialization vulnerability in SerializationTypeConverter when converting powershell remoting objects to execute OS commands as SYSTEM.
Microsoft Exchange MeetingPollHandler Deserialization Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploit
Deserialization vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange MeetingPollProposeOptionsPayload.GetRequests() method. This method can be triggered with an HTTP request and with a specially crafted XML payload it can lead to OS command execution within the context of the w3wp.exe process which has SYSTEM level privileges.
Microsoft Excel XLB File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS11-021)
The vulnerability exists within the application's parsing of a particular record within a Microsoft Excel Compound Document. When specifying a particular value, the application will fail to initialize a variable that is used as the length of a memcpy operation.
Microsoft Excel SLK File Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS11-045) Update
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Excel handles specially crafted .SLK files. This version adds Office 2003 support.
Microsoft Excel SLK File Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS11-045)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Excel handles specially crafted .SLK files. 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.
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.
Microsoft Excel Lel Biff Record Memory Corruption (MS11-096)
The vulnerability is due to an memory corruption when the vulnerable software handles a crafted Excel file with a corrupted LEL record. 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 update adds support for Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 and Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3. This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Excel file via a hyperlink bigger than 8000 bytes of length.