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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?
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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
Google Sketchup MAC Pict Stack Corruption Exploit
Google Sketchup fails to validate the input when parsing an crafted skp file with Pict texture, leading to an arbitrary stack offset overwrite and finally to an arbitrary code execution.
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the administration web server for GoodTech Telnet Server which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string to port 2380.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of a .ASX file with a long URI in the ref href tag. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .ASX file.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the GomWeb3.dll control included in the GoM Player ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
This vulnerability on installations of Golden FTP Server is due to a boundary error with the handling of passwords. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via the use of overly long, specially-crafted passwords passed to the affected server.
Embedthis GoAhead before 3.6.5 and after 2.5.0 allows remote code execution if CGI is enabled and a CGI program is dynamically linked. This is a result of initializing the environment of forked CGI scripts using untrusted HTTP request parameters in the cgiHandler function in cgi.c. When combined with the glibc dynamic linker, this behaviour can be abused for remote code execution using special parameter names such as LD_PRELOAD. An attacker can POST their shared object payload in the body of the request, and reference it using /proc/self/fd/0.
Fortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. This issue was patched in version 7.1.2.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Go Anywhere MFT Accept Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit
Fortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. This issue was patched in version 7.1.2.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
GNU ld.so Arbitrary Dlopen Privilege Escalation Exploit
The GNU C dynamic linker (ld.so) is prone to a local privilege- escalation vulnerability. This module exploits the vulnerability to install an agent with root privileges.
GNU Glibc ld.so ORIGIN Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The GNU C library (GNU glibc) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. This module exploits the vulnerability to install an agent with root privileges. This update improves the module reliability.
GNU Glibc ld.so ORIGIN Privilege Escalation Exploit
The GNU C library (GNU glibc) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. This module exploits the vulnerability to install an agent with root privileges. 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 stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the PostScript processor included in GNOME Evince. The vulnerability is caused by the get_next_text() function not properly validating overly long fields in a PostScript file. The exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted file distributed via an email.
GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations with GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server,which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error with the handling of overly long commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted command passed to the affected server.
CuteZip is prone to a buffer-overflow when handling a specially crafted ZIP file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
glibc getaddrinfo Buffer Overflow Verifier
This module executes a program designed to check for a buffer overflow in glibc's getaddrinfo function. Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the send_dg and send_vc functions in the libresolv library in the GNU C Library allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response that triggers a call to the getaddrinfo function with the AF_UNSPEC or AF_INET6 address family.
CVE-2021-22205 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.9. GitLab was not properly validating image files that were passed to a file parser which resulted in a remote command execution.
Tested on GitLab CE 13.10.2
Exploits / Remote Code Execution
SCADAPRO
GitLab 12.9.0 - Directory Traversal
GitLab EE/CE 8.5 to 12.9 is vulnerable to a an path traversal when moving an issue between projects. Tested on GitLab CE 12.9.0 CVE-2020-10977
Exploits / Remote File Disclosure
IOT
Git Insecure Path Component Exploit
CVE-2014-9390: Git is prone to a vulnerability that may allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary local files. This module exploits the condition and installs an Agent when a vulnerable GIT client performs a CLONE to the fake repository created.
There is a buffer overflow in the script-fu server component of GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) when sending a crafted package to the port 10008.
This module exploits a vulnerability in various GIGABYTE and AORUS branded utilities. The low level access drivers at the core of these utilities expose dangerous functionality to low privilege processes, a local attacker can read/write arbitrary kernel memory, which can be leveraged to elevate privileges.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Ghostscript software included in most Linux distributions. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the ICC parser at the zseticcspace function in zicc.c in Ghostscript 8.61 and earlier. The exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted file distributed via an email.
When using the Apache JServ Protocol (AJP), care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to Apache Tomcat. Tomcat treats AJP connections as having higher trust than, for example, a similar HTTP connection. If such connections are available to an attacker, they can be exploited in ways that may be surprising. In Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.30, 8.5.0 to 8.5.50 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.99, Tomcat shipped with an AJP Connector enabled by default that listened on all configured IP addresses.