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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IIS ASP ChunkedEncoding exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the .ASP ISAPI filter. After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually running with lowered privileges.
The vulnerability exists because of a buffer overrun in the remote debug functionality of FrontPage Server Extensions. This functionality enables users to remotely connect to a server running FrontPage Server Extensions and remotely debug content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could be able to run code with IWAM_machinename account privileges on an affected system.
Microsoft IIS is prone to a remote stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability affecting the application's FTP server. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.
After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually run as an IUSR or IWAM user, specially created for IIS to answer anonymous requests. If this condition is present, the newly deployed agent will run with an unprivileged user.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the MSADCS.DLL library of the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) used by the Microsoft IIS Server. By default remote access to this component is not granted but if the Remote Data Services (RDS) are enabled this exploit could be used to enter into the target machine. This exploit could be also used to escalate privileges in the target machine if the source agent is the same machine. After successful exploitation an agent will be installed.
The logging capability for unicast and multicast transmissions in the ISAPI extension for Microsoft Windows Media Services in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and 2000, nsiislog.dll, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in Internet Information Server (IIS) and execute arbitrary code via a certain network request.
After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually run as an IUSR or IWAM user, specially created for IIS to answer anonymous requests.
After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually run as an IUSR or IWAM user, specially created for IIS to answer anonymous requests. If this condition is present, the newly deployed agent will run with an unprivileged user. In most cases, the RevertToSelf Win32 API call can be used, available with the RevertToSelf module (see "RevertToSelf") to replace the current process access token with the saved one, usually SYSTEM, thus, effectively gaining full control of the target host.
InduSoft Web Studio CEServer Remote Code Execution Exploit
The flaw exists in the Remote Agent (CEServer.exe) that listens by default on TCP port 4322, the process can not perform any authentication and copy the packages designed to a fixed size buffer.
Integard Home and Pro Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Integard Home and Pro. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of HTTP POST requests. This may allow execution of arbitrary code by sending an overly long, specially crafted HTTP POSTrequest to the server.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Interactive Graphical SCADA System Command Injection Exploit
This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Interactive Graphical SCADA System and install an agent into the target machine.
This module exploits a stack overflow in InterSystems Cache by sending a specially crafted GET request.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
IntraSrv Simple Web Server Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing IntraSrv Simple Web Server. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within IntraSrv Simple Web Server when processing HTTP GET Request. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Invision Power Board Unserialize Remote Code Execution Exploit
Invision Power Board is vulnerable to a remote code execution due to the use of the unserialize method on user input passed through cookies without a proper sanitization. This module exploits the vulnerability and installs an agent into the target host.
JBoss Application Server DeploymentFileRepository Remote Code Execution Exploit
A directory traversal vulnerability in the DeploymentFileRepository class in JBoss Application Server allows remote attackers who are able to access the console manager to create files on arbitrary locations of the filesystem. This can be abused to gain execution of arbitrary code by sending special HTTP requests to the JMX Console. This module uploads an arbitrary .JSP file to the target in order to deploy an agent on it.
The JMX-Console web application in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform performs access control only for the GET and POST methods, which allows remote attackers to send requests to this application's GET handler by using a different method. This module uploads an arbitrary .JSP file to the target in order to deploy an agent on it.
An input sanitization flaw exists in the way JBoss Seam processes certain parameterized JBoss Expression Language (EL) expressions. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via GET requests, containing specially-crafted expression language parameters, provided to web applications based on the JBoss Seam Framework. This module exploits the vulnerability in any web application based on vulnerable versions of the Seam 2 Framework.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of the Kerberos authentication protocol, impersonating a user of the domain's Administrators group to install an agent in the domain controller with System privileges.
Buffer overflow in the administrator authentication process for Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) 2.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a handshake packet.
KingView Scada is vulnerable to a buffer overflow error in the HistorySvr.exe module when processing malformed packets sent to port 777/TCP. This update adds new indirection using shell32.dll version 6.0.0.2900.5512.