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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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RealNetworks RealPlayer CDDA URI ActiveX Exploit
An ActiveX control in RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.4, and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.2 does not properly initialize an unspecified object component during parsing of a CDDA URI, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and application crash) via a long URI.
The sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader class of Oracle Java does not properly validate if the URL of a Java class file matches the "codebase" parameter while loading applets. This vulnerability allows an applet to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox without restrictions, which can be exploited to install an agent on the target machine.
A code execution vulnerability exists in the way that VLC handles specially crafted .NSV (Nullsoft streaming video file) files when opening in Internet Explorer 6 or 7.
Adobe Flash Player SWF File Uninitialized Memory Exploit
A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an uninitialized memory access triggered by a specially crafted .SWF file, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during March 2011.
Microsoft .NET Runtime Optimization Service Privilege Escalation Exploit
The .NET Runtime Optimization Service, part of the .NET Framework, is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which can be exploited by local unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.
Phoenix Project Manager is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named wbtrv32.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as a .PPX file.
The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .PPX file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Microsoft Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-015)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Windows Media Player when parsing a malformed DVR-MS 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.
This module shuts down the TYPSoft FTP Server because it fails to properly handle user-supplied malformed packets using for login the Anonymous user provided by default for the program
CA ARCserve D2D installs the Apache Axis2 Web services engine with the default password for the administrator account, which can be abused by a remote attacker to upload an .AAR web service and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on the machine where the vulnerable software is installed.
Microsoft Remote Desktop dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit (MS11-017)
Microsoft Remote Desktop is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named dwmapi.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as an .RDP 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in CSDWebInstaller.ocx included on Cisco Secure Desktop. The vulnerability is triggered when the ActiveX control verifies the signing authority names in the certificate chain but fails to properly verify the digital signature of an executable file that is downloaded and then executed.
HP OpenView NNM ovas Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ovas service, part of the HP OpenView Network Node Manager application. The exploit triggers a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted POST request with a malformed Destination Node variable to the vulnerable system and installs an agent if successful.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing ActFax Server.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing an overly long Print Job command on the Line Printer Daemon Server (LPD-Server) . This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the officeviewer.ocx control included in the Edraw Office Viewer Component ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the HttpPost() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
Solar FTP Server is prone to a Denial of Service condition. It fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input with a specially crafted "USER" command, a remote attacker can potentially disable the FTP service.