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.
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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?
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 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.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
A deserialization vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the Report Server service account.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Viper RGB Driver Kernel Buffer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Viper RGB MsIo64.sys vulnerability allows unprivileged local users to execute code with SYSTEM privileges.
The IOCTL Codes 0x80102050 and 0x80102054 allow a low privileges user to read/write 1/2/4 bytes from/to an IO port. This could be leveraged in a number of ways to ultimately run code with elevated privileges.
Microsoft Windows CoreShellComServerRegistrar Open Process Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Core Shell COM Server Registrar improperly handles COM calls. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially set certain items to run at a higher level and thereby elevate permissions.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.
Cisco Data Center Network Manager HostEnclHandler getVmHostData SQL Injection Vulnerability Exploit Update
This module uses an authentication bypass and a SQL injection vulnerability in order to upload and execute a JSP file in the Wildfly virtual file system webapps directory.
This update fixes OS detection when detecting DCNM version.
Exploits / Authentication Weakness / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop DejaBlue DoS
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services -formerly known as Terminal Services- when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests.
Windows Error Reporting Manager Arbitrary File Move Elevation of Privilege Exploit (CVE-2019-1315)
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles hard links. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite a targeted file leading to an elevated status.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would first have to log on to the system. An attacker could then run a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerability and take control of an affected system.
The driver in Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 (aka RTCore64.sys and RTCore32.sys) allows any authenticated user to read and write to arbitrary memory, I/O ports, and MSRs.
Cisco Data Center Network Manager HostEnclHandler getVmHostData SQL Injection Vulnerability Exploit
This module uses an authentication bypass and a SQL injection vulnerability in order to upload and execute a JSP file in the Wildfly virtual file system webapps directory.
Exploits / Authentication Weakness / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Citrix ADC and Gateway Directory Traversal Vulnerability Exploit
Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix Gateway are prone to a directory traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to upload an XML file via newbm.pl and execute system commands.
Microsoft Windows Win32k xxxMNFindWindowFromPoint Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Win32k 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.
Linux PTRACE_TRACEME Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
In the Linux kernel before 5.1.17, ptrace_link in kernel/ptrace.c mishandles the recording of the credentials of a process that wants to create a ptrace relationship, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging certain scenarios with a parent-child process relationship, where a parent drops privileges and calls execve (potentially allowing control by an attacker).
Microsoft Windows UPnP Device Host Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits two vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1405 & CVE-2019-1322) in order to get SYSTEM privileges. The first one "UPnP Device Host" allows us to get SERVICE privileges. The second one "Update Orchestrator Service" allows us to escalate from SERVICE to SYSTEM.
The MsIo64.sys and MsIo32.sys drivers in Patriot Viper RGB allow local users (including low integrity processes) to read and write to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges, by mapping \Device\PhysicalMemory into the calling process via ZwOpenSection and ZwMapViewOfSection.
Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol BlueKeep DoS Update
A Denial of Service exists in Remote Desktop Services formerly known as Terminal Services when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests.
This update corrects wrong category specification.
This module will send various malformed messages over ssl to the target service in order to detect a discrepancy between the server's responses, if this is the case, it will mark said target as vulnerable to this kind of attacks (ROBOT attack)
Microsoft Internet Explorer Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Exploit
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system.
Apache Solr is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to take advantage of an insecure deployment of the JMX/RMI service used to manage and monitor the Java Virtual Machine.
By exploiting known methods, it is possible to remotely load an MLet file from an attacker controlled web server that points at a jar file.
The specific flaw exists within the handling of XML files. When parsing the ShortMessage SMtext element, the process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a buffer.
AVEVA InduSoft Web Studio Remote Command Injection Exploit
Unauthenticated remote command injection vulnerability in Indusoft Web Studio 8.1 SP2. The vulnerability is exercised via the custom remote agent protocol that is typically found on port 1234 or 51234. An attacker can issue a specially crafted command 66 which causes IWS to load a DB connection file off of a network share using SMB. The DB file can contain OS commands that will be executed at the privilege level used by IWS.
SolarWinds Dameware Mini Remote Control Unauthenticated RCE Exploit
The Solarwinds Dameware Mini Remote Client agent supports smart card authentication by default which allows a user to upload an executable to be executed on the DWRCS.exe host. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can request smart card login and upload and execute an arbitrary executable.