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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WeBid converter Remote Code Execution Exploit
Input passed via the "from" and "to" POST parameters to converter.php is not properly sanitised before being stored in includes/currencies.php. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code.
This module abuses a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the diff.php script. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the www-data user account.
The default Java security properties configuration did not restrict access
to certain com.sun.org.glassfish packages. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user.
The VMware vSphere API contains a denial of service vulnerability. This issue allows an unauthenticated user to send a maliciously crafted API request and disable the host daemon. Exploitation of the issue would prevent management activities on the host but any virtual machines running on the host would be unaffected.
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.
CYME ChartFX Client Server ActiveX Control Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to an indexing error in the ShowPropertiesDialog()method inside the ChartFX.ClientServer.Core.dll ActiveX Control. This can be exploited to write a single byte value to an arbitrary memory location via the pageNumber parameter.
Avaya IP Office Customer Call Reporter ImageUpload Exploit
The specific flaw exists because Avaya IP Office Customer Call Reporter allows to upload files to the webserver through ImageUpload.ashx. The uploaded files will not be stripped of their file extensions and the directory where they are saved has no scripting restrictions.
VisiWave Site Survey Report File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Update
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in VisiWave Site Survey Report when handling report files. This can be exploited to cause a stack based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .VWR file.
This module allows remote attackers to place arbitrary files on a temporary folder in Novel ZENWorks AdminStudio, through a vulnerability in LaunchHelp.dll ActiveX Control (LaunchHelp.dll version 9.5.0.0). Code execution is achieved by uploading and executing a vbs script which then requests and executes Impact's binary agent.
EMC NetWorker nsrd RPC Service Format String Exploit Update
A Format string vulnerability in the nsrd RPC service within EMC NetWorker? allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a crafted message.
Apple QuickTime Style Elements TeXML Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer Overflow when handling an attribute of style elements can be exploited when Quick Player handles a specially crafted TeXML file.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
Apple QuickTime text3GTrack attribute TeXML Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer Overflow when handling an attribute of "text3GTrack" elements can be exploited when Quick Player handles a specially crafted TeXML file.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
NTR ActiveX Control StopModule Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ntractivex118.dll module included in the NTRglobal NTR Activex Control application. The exploit is triggered when the StopModule() method processes a crafted argument resulting in a buffer overflow.
Aladdin Knowledge System Ltd PrivAgent ChooseFilePath Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Aladdin Knowledge System Ltd PrivAgent.ocx ActiveX Control. The exploit is triggered when the ChooseFilePath() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
HP Data Protector Express Opcode 0x330 Parsing Remote Code Execution Exploit
A buffer Overflow exists within the dpwinsdr.exe process which listens on TCP port 3817 by default. The process has insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data copied to a fixed-length buffer on the stack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed opcode 0x330 message packets to the target.