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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Windows Error Reporting Manager Arbitrary File Move Elevation of Privilege Exploit (CVE-2019-1315)
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with System privileges. It is working until KB4497727 and KB4495666 for Windows 10 x64 v1903
Citrix ADC and Gateway Directory Traversal Vulnerability Exploit
Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway are prone to a directory traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to upload an XML file via newbm.pl and execute system commands.
smtp_mailaddr in smtp_session.c in OpenSMTPD 6.6, as used in OpenBSD 6.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root via a crafted SMTP session, as demonstrated by shell metacharacters in a MAIL FROM field. This affects the "uncommented" default configuration. The issue exists because of an incorrect return value upon failure of input validation.
FreeBSD IOCTL CDIOCREADSUBCHANNELSYSSPACE Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in FreeBSD. A bug in the cdrom driver allows users with read access to the cdrom device to arbitrarily overwrite kernel memory when media is present thereby allowing a malicious user in the operator group to gain root privileges.
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
Gets SYSTEM privileges exploiting two vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1405 / CVE-2019-1322). The first one allows us to get NT AUTHORITY/SERVICE using a method of a COM Object from UPnP Device Host Service. Then, with NT AUTHORITY/SERVICE privileges, we elevate to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM with CVE-2019-1322.
Sudo Root With User ID Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The -u parameter of sudo can be used to specify a user id if preceded by '#', this module exploits a flaw in how that parameter is handled, when the id -1 is provided sudo will run the command as root even if it is restricted in the sudoers file For this exploit to work, there must be at least one directive in the sudoers file that allows a non privileged user to run a command as any user, thus by exploiting the flaw this command can be ran as root Depending on the configured commands inside the sudoers file, an new privileged agent can be deployed using only those commands.
The vulnerability allows 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.
Windows Win32k Elevation Of Privilege Exploit (CVE-2019-0803)
This module exploits a win32k component vulnerability This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with System privileges. It is working until KB4507004 update 2019/07/08 it is patched in KB4507449 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 x64-based Systems 2019/07/09
The specific flaw exists within BwPAlarm.dll, which is accessed through the 70603 IOCTL in the webvrpcs process. The process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length buffer.
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.
Disk Pulse Enterprise Import Command Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow on Disk Pulse Formats plugin when parsing a specially crafted .XML file. After the file is downloaded, the user must open it from the application, clicking on the Command option in the menu bar (or right clicking in the middle window), then choosing Import Command ... and selecting the file.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Exploit
This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting an invalid pointer reference in Internet Explorer.