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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. Witten by our own internal team, 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
Microsoft Windows HTTP UaF List DoS HTTP.sys has a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to crash the vulnerable machine. Windows Denial of Service / Remote Impact
Cisco AnyConnect Posture Security Service TOCTOU Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update The Security Service of Cisco AnyConnect Posture (HostScan) for Windows incorrectly restricts access to internal IPC commands. This could enable low-privileged users to achieve NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges by sending crafted IPC commands.

This module bypasses CVE-2021-1366 by abusing a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in the priv_file_copy command.



This update adds code to launch the exploit for CVE-2021-1366 if the detected version is vulnerable to it.
Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Windows win32kbase Use After Free using Direct Composition Privileged Escalation Exploit The vulnerability is an Use After Free Privilege Escalation in win32kbase and occurs in the DirectComposition::CInteractionTrackerBindingManagerMarshaler::SetBufferProperty function, which is the handler for the SetResourceBufferProperty command of a CInteractionTrackerBindingManagerMarshaler. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Linux OverlayFS Attr Local Privilege Escalation Exploit The overlayfs implementation in the linux kernel did not properly validate with respect to user namespaces the setting of file capabilities on files in an underlying file system. Due to the combination of unprivileged user namespaces along with a patch carried in the Ubuntu kernel to allow unprivileged overlay mounts, an attacker could use this to gain elevated privileges. Linux Exploits / Local Impact
Cisco AnyConnect Posture Security Service TOCTOU Local Privilege Escalation Exploit The Security Service of Cisco AnyConnect Posture (HostScan) for Windows incorrectly restricts access to internal IPC commands. This could enable low-privileged users to achieve NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges by sending crafted IPC commands.

This module bypasses CVE-2021-1366 by abusing a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in the priv_file_copy command.
Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the DirectComposition component fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
MicroFocus OBM UCMDB Services Java Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit Hard-coded credentials for the diagnostics user can be used to authenticate in the UCMDB component.

Then a java deserialization vulnerability present in several endpoints of the UCMDB service can be used to execute OS commands.
Windows, Linux Exploits / Authentication Weakness / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Pulse Connect Secure Custom Template Injection Remote Code Execution Exploit A vulnerability in the admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to upload custom template to perform an arbitrary code execution. Linux Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact
Apache Unomi Remote Code Execution Exploit Apache Unomi allows conditions to use OGNL and MVEL scripting which offers the possibility to call static Java classes from the JDK that could execute code with the permission level of the running Java process.

Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Sudo Setcmnd Heap Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update An improvement in the heap feng shui in order to add more stability and support for more versions. Linux Exploits / Local Impact
Windows Win32k xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes Privilege Escalation Exploit Update This vulnerability is caused by xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes callback in win32kfull!xxxCreateWindowEx. The callback causes the setting of a kernel struct member and its corresponding flag to be out of sync.

This Update adds support for Windows 10 2004 and 20H2
Windows Exploits / Local Impact
VMware vCenter Server uploadova TAR Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Exploit Unauthenticated file upload vulnerability via uploadova plugin in VMware vCenter Server to upload and extract a TAR file.

The TAR file contains a path traversal that allows writing files at arbitraries locations.
Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Arbitrary File Write Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Windows Win32k xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes Privilege Escalation Exploit This vulnerability is caused by xxxClientAllocWindowClassExtraBytes callback in win32kfull!xxxCreateWindowEx. The callback causes the setting of a kernel struct member and its corresponding flag to be out of sync. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Sudo Setcmnd Heap Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Sudo before 1.9.5p2 has a Heap-based Buffer Overflow, allowing privilege escalation to root via "sudoedit -s" and a command-line argument that ends with a single backslash character.

Linux Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Windows DNS Server SIGRed Remote Code Execution Exploit A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the Local System Account. Windows servers that are configured as DNS servers are at risk from this vulnerability. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact
F5 BIG-IP iControl REST API Remote Code Execution Exploit This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers with network access to the iControl REST interface, through the BIG-IP management interface and self IP addresses, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, and disable services. This vulnerability can only be exploited through the control plane and cannot be exploited through the data plane. Exploitation can lead to complete system compromise. The BIG-IP system in Appliance mode is also vulnerable Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
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. Windows Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact
Microsoft Windows splwow64 Untrusted Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Exploit Update The specific flaw exists within the user-mode printer driver host process splwow64.exe. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied value prior to dereferencing it as a pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges from low integrity and execute code in the context of the current user at medium integrity.



This update improves the reliability and adds support for more patch levels.
Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly allows arbitrary writing to the file system. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with elevated system privileges. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
FreeBSD Sendmsg Compat32 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r363918, 12.1-RELEASE before p8, 11.4-STABLE before r363919, 11.4-RELEASE before p2, and 11.3-RELEASE before p12, the sendmsg system call in the compat32 subsystem on 64-bit platforms has a time-of-check to time-of-use vulnerability allowing a mailcious userspace program to modify control message headers after they were validation. FreeBSD Exploits / Local Impact
Windows Kernel EtwpNotifyGuid Local Privilege Escalation Exploit An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Kernel handles objects in memory. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
SolarWinds Orion Collector Service MSMQ Deserialization Remote Code Execution Exploit Update The Collector Service in SolarWinds Orion Platform before 2020.2.4 uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) and doesn't set permissions on its private queues. As a result, remote unauthenticated clients can send messages to TCP port 1801 that the Collector Service will process. Additionally, upon processing of such messages, the service deserializes them in insecure manner, allowing remote arbitrary code execution as LocalSystem.



This update adds "Connect to" Agent Connection and fixes some issues.
Windows Exploits / Remote Impact
Cisco AnyConnect Posture Security Service Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Multiple vulnerabilities in the Security Service of Cisco AnyConnect Posture for Windows could allow an authenticated local attacker, to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM user privileges. Windows Exploits / Local Impact
SolarWinds Orion Collector Service MSMQ Deserialization Remote Code Execution Exploit The Collector Service in SolarWinds Orion Platform before 2020.2.4 uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) and doesn't set permissions on its private queues. As a result, remote unauthenticated clients can send messages to TCP port 1801 that the Collector Service will process. Additionally, upon processing of such messages, the service deserializes them in insecure manner, allowing remote arbitrary code execution as LocalSystem. Windows Exploits / Remote Impact