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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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Exploit Type
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Atlassian Jira Template Injection Vulnerability Remote OS Command Injection Exploit
Server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center, in the ContactAdministrators and the SendBulkMail actions.
If an SMTP server has been configured, then an unauthenticated user can execute code on vulnerable systems using the ContactAdministrators action if the "Contact Administrators Form" is enabled; or an authenticated user can execute code on vulnerable systems using the SendBulkMail action if the user has "JIRA Administrators" access.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows LUAFV PostLuafvPostReadWrite SECTION_OBJECT_POINTERS Race Condition Privilege Escalation
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to the LUAFV driver (luafv.sys). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context of the local system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Private Internet Access VPN Malicious OpenSSL Engine Privilege Escalation Exploit
During startup the PIA Windows service(pia-service.exe) loads the OpenSSL library from C:\Program Files\Private Internet Access\libeay32.dll. This library attempts to load the C:\etc\ssl\openssl.cnf configuration file. By default on Windows systems, authenticated users can create directories under C:\. A low privileged user can create a openssl.cnf configuration file to load a malicious OpenSSL engine library resulting in the arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM when the service starts.
Cisco Data Center Network Manager Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Exploit
Cisco Data Center Network Manager is vulnerable to an authenticated arbitrary file upload, which allows to upload a WAR file to the Apache Tomcat webapps directory.
The Apache Tomcat webapps directory can be determined using a information disclosure vulnerability.
Authentication can be bypassed on versions 10.4(2) and below.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way the Task Scheduler Service validates certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain elevated privileges on a victim system.
The pdkinstall development plugin is incorrectly enabled in release builds of Atlassian Crowd and Crowd Data Center. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to install a malicious plugin and execute code in the system.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows DHCP Server Heap Overflow Vulnerability DoS Update 2
A Heap Overflow vulnerability exists in the Windows Server DHCP service when an attacker sends specially crafted packets to a DHCP server. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code on the DHCP server.
This version improves the detection of the effectiveness in non-vulnerable targets.
This update uses Impacket replacing Impacket 2014r1.
Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol BlueKeep DoS
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.
VMware Workstation VMX Process COM Class Hijack Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.0.3, 14.x before 14.1.6) running on Windows does not handle COM classes appropriately. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow hijacking of COM classes used by the VMX process, on a Windows host, leading to elevation of privilege.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Windows AppX Deployment Service AppXSVC Privilege Escalation Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) improperly handles hard links, aka 'Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
Cisco Prime Infrastructure Health Monitor UploadServlet Remote JSP File Upload Vulnerability Exploit
The TarArchive class blindly extracts tar archives without checking for directory traversals. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the system.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows LUAFV Delayed Virtualization MAXIMUM_ACCESS DesiredAccess Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to the LUAFV driver (luafv.sys). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context of the local system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Panda Antivirus AgentSvc Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The vulnerable is a Local Privilege Escalation in AgentSvc.exe. This service creates a global section object and a corresponding global event that is signaled whenever a process that writes to the shared memory wants the data to be processed by the service. The vulnerability lies in the weak permissions that are affected to both these objects allowing "Everyone" including unprivileged users to manipulate the shared memory and the event.
Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise before 8.00.5, SafeGuard Easy before 7.00.3, and SafeGuard LAN Crypt before 3.95.2 are vulnerable to Local Privilege Escalation via multiple IOCTLs. This update fixes an error in the injection.
The Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence Server allows remote attackers to achieve path traversal and remote code execution via server-side template injection.
This update adds support to control the FTP Server port number and socket timeout.
Heap-based buffer overflow in dnsmasq before 2.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS response.
The Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence Server allows remote attackers to achieve path traversal and remote code execution via server-side template injection.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Dnsmasq Integer Underflow DoS
In dnsmasq before 2.78, if the DNS packet size does not match the expected size, the size parameter in a memset call gets a negative value. As it is an unsigned value, memset ends up writing up to 0xffffffff zero's (0xffffffffffffffff in 64 bit platforms), making dnsmasq crash.
Microsoft Windows Win32k DestroyClass 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.