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
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Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
MySQL password handler exploit
MySQL server has been reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when handling user passwords of excessive size. The issue presents itself, due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking performed when processing MySQL user passwords. A password greater that 16 characters may overrun the bounds of a reserved buffer in memory and corrupt adjacent memory. An attacker with global administrative privileges on an affected MySQL server may potentially exploit this condition to have arbitrary supplied instructions executed in the context of the MySQL server.
MySQL with yaSSL SSL Certificate Handling Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a remote buffer-overflow in MySQL servers using the yaSSL library. The overflow is located in the 'ProcessOldClientHello' function on the yaSSL library.
This module exploits a remote buffer-overflow in MySQL servers using the yaSSL library. The overflow is located in the 'ProcessOldClientHello' function on the yaSSL library.
NaviCOPA Web Server Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing NaviCOPA. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of HTTP GET requests. This may allow execution of arbitrary code by sending an overly long, specially crafted HTTP GET request to the server.
Network Dynamic Data Exchange (NetDDE) services for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 allows attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code or locally gain privileges via a malicious message or application that involves an "unchecked buffer", possibly a buffer overflow.
Netmechanica NetDecision HTTP Server Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Netmechanica NetDecision HTTP Server. A buffer overflow in NetDecision's HTTP service is exploited when a long URL is managed by the HTTP Server's active window. For successfull exploitation, the victim need to have the HttpSvr's window open. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
An internal memory buffer may be overrun while handling long "USER" command. This condition may be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the NetTerm NetFTPD.exe process. FreeFTPD will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
Net Transport eDonkey Protocol Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Net Transport Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Net Transport is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Nginx chunked Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in Nginx by sending a malformed chunked request.
A boundary error exists in the HTTP Protocol Stack (httpstk) component of iMonitor within the "BuildRedirectURL()" function when processing "Host" HTTP headers. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted request with an overly long "Host" header.
A boundary error exists in the dhost.dll component of Novell eDirectory post authentication when processing list of modules. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted request with an overly long module name.
Novell File Reporter Agent XML Tag Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell File Reporter. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/3037.
Novell File Reporter NFRAgent FSFUI Record File Upload Exploit
This module exploits a Directory traversal vulnerability in NFRAgent.exe in Novell File Reporter. This allows remote attackers to upload and execute files via a 130 /FSF/CMD request with a .. (dot dot) in a FILE element of an FSFUI record. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/3037.
Novell File Reporter NFRAgent PATH Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell File Reporter. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/3037.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Novell File Reporter NFRAgent VOL Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell File Reporter. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/3037.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Novell GroupWise Internet Agent Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits an off-by-one condition by sending a specially crafted RCPT verb argument to a Novell GroupWise Internet Agent.
This module exploits a remote stack-based buffer overflow in Novell iManager by creating a class with an overly long name. In order to exploit this vulnerability, you must be able to login to any Novell eDirectory server via the target iManager application. This exploit will bypass DEP on Windows 2003 platforms by disabling it in the context of the current process.
This module exploits a path traversal vulnerability in Novell ZENworks Asset Management. The flaw exists within the rtrlet component. This process listens on TCP port 8080. When handling an unauthenticated file upload the process does not properly sanitize the path. Directory traversal can be used to drop a file in an arbitrary location and a null byte inserted into the filename to provide arbitrary extension.