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
SAP MaxDB Malformed Handshake Request Exploit This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in SAP MaxDB by sending a specially crafted packet to 7210/TCP port.



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. 		CVE-2010-1185 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Internet Explorer Tabular Data Control ActiveX Exploit (MS10-018) This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on

vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The specific flaw exists within the Tabular Data Control ActiveX module.

Specifically, if provided a malicious DataURL parameter a stack

corruption may occur in the function CTDCCtl::SecurityCHeckDataURL. This

can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code under the context of the

current user.
 CVE-2010-0805 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
MSRPC DCOM Exploit Update This update improves the reliability of the exploit when using Reuse Connection method.

 CVE-2003-0352 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Oracle Java Soundbank Resource Name Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Oracle Java SE when jsound.dll parses a specially crafted Soundbank 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. 		CVE-2010-0839 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows SMB Pathname Overflow DoS (MS10-012) This module exploits a vulnerability on srv.sys when it executes a rename command into shared folder using a long pathname.



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.

CVE-2010-0020 Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
Linux Kernel Sock_Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation (sock_sendpage function) on a PF_PPPOX socket.



This update adds the 'one-shot' tag to the XML of the module. 		CVE-2009-2692 Linux Exploits / Local Impact Professional
ISC BIND Dynamic Update Message DoS Exploit Update A vulnerability has been identified in ISC BIND, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused due to the "dns_db_findrdataset()" function failing when the prerequisite section of a dynamic update message contains a record of type "ANY" and where at least one RRset for this FQDN exists on the server, which could allow attackers to cause a vulnerable server to exit when receiving a specially crafted dynamic update message sent to a zone for which the server is the master.


 CVE-2009-0696 Solaris, AIX, Linux, Mac OS X Denial of Service / Remote Impact Professional
VariCAD DWB Buffer Overflow Exploit VariCAD is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks when opening .DWB files. NOCVE-9999-42557 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
FeedDemon OPML Outline Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit FeedDemon is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks when opening .OPML files. CVE-2009-0546 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Mozilla Firefox WOFF Heap Overflow Exploit This module exploits a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox via a WOFF font file embedded in a HTML.

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. 		CVE-2010-1028 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Office Excel DbOrParamQry Record Parsing Exploit (MS10-017) This module exploits a memory corruption on Microsoft Office Excel XP when parsing a malformed .XLS file with a specially crafted DbOrParamQry record.

 CVE-2010-0264 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Winamp Impulse Tracker Sample Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in the Module Decoder

Plug-in (IN_MOD.DLL) when parsing samples and can be exploited to

cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted Impulse

Tracker file. 		CVE-2009-3995 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft SQL Server sp_replwritetovarbin Remote Heap Overflow Exploit Update This module exploits a heap-based buffer overflow in the Microsoft SQL Server by sending a specially crafted SQL query. This update adds support for executestatement() functionality within the WebApps vector.



It has two uses: One as a Remote Exploit which needs authentication, and another as an SQL Injection Agent installer module, which needs an SQL Agent as a target.

 CVE-2008-5416 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Yahoo Player YPL Buffer Overflow Exploit Yahoo Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Yahoo Player when handling .YPL files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .YPL file. NOCVE-9999-42369 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Internet Explorer iepeers Use-After-Free Exploit This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability on Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

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. 		CVE-2010-0806 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Windows Movie Maker MSWMM Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-016) This module exploits a buffer overflow in Windows Movie Maker by sending a specially crafted .MSWMM 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. 		CVE-2010-0265 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
ReGet Deluxe WJR File Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of .WJR files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into opening a .WJR file containing an overly long "Save To" field. NOCVE-9999-42326 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Zope standard_error_message Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Zope is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks. NOCVE-9999-41980 Exploits / Known Vulnerabilities Impact Professional
Adobe Reader Import Tiff Buffer Overflow Exploit Update This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader products when a malformed .TIFF file is parsed.



This update add support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 trying to bypass DEP and ASRL protections. 		CVE-2010-0188 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
One Link Multiple Clientsides Modules Update This update adds support for several additional ActiveX exploits. CVE-2007-3148 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
OpenX Remote Code Execution Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to the banner-edit.php script allowing the upload of files with arbitrary extensions to a folder inside the webroot. This can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a specially crafted PHP script that contains the GIF magic number. CVE-2009-4098 Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Orbital Viewer .ORB Buffer Overflow Exploit Orbital Viewer is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer. CVE-2010-0688 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom Record Invalid Index Exploit (MS10-004) Update Array index error in Microsoft Powerpoint, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PowerPoint document, aka "PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom" 'placementId' Invalid Array Indexing Vulnerability.

This update improves memory management.

 CVE-2010-0031 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
vBulletin acuparam Cross Site Scripting Exploit Input passed via the URL is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user within the search.php, sendmessage.php, showgroups.php, usercp.php, online.php, misc.php, memberlist.php, member.php, index.php, forumdisplay.php, inlinemod.php, newthread.php, private.php, profile.php, register.php, showthread.php, subscription.php, forum.php, faq.php, and calendar.php script. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. NOCVE-9999-42237 Exploits / Known Vulnerabilities Impact Professional
Microsoft PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom Record Invalid Index Exploit (MS10-004) Array index error in Microsoft Powerpoint, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PowerPoint document, aka "PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom" 'placementId' Invalid Array Indexing Vulnerability.

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.
 CVE-2010-0031 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional