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
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
OracleDB XDB FTP UNLOCK overflow exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the UNLOCK command of the Oracle 9i Database FTP XDB service.
Oracle Forms and Reports Remote Code Execution Exploit
One of the vulnerabilities allows remote attackers writing to the host filesystem on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Oracle Forms and Reporting.
The Administration Console of Oracle GlassFish Server is prone to a authentication bypass vulnerability, which can be achieved by performing HTTP TRACE requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable server. This module will create a backdoor administrator account in the Administration Console of Oracle GlassFish and then deploy a .WAR application in order to install an agent on the target server.
This module exploits an authentication bypass in the login.php in vulnerable versions of Oracle Secure Backup in order to execute arbitrary code via command injection parameters.
This module exploits a command injection error in the Oracle Secure Backup Administration server. The error is located on the exec_qr function, called from the login.php page.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic IIS Connector when sending a specially crafted POST message with a specially JSESSIONID cookie.
Exploits a buffer overflow in the Apache Connector of Oracle WebLogic Server (formerly known as BEA WebLogic Server). The target path used when launching this module against an Apache Server must be handled by the Apache Connector or the exploit will not succeed.
Panda Security for Business Pagent MESSAGE_FROM_REMOTE Path Traversal Exploit
The Pagent service component of Panda Security for Business is prone to a path traversal vulnerability when handling MESSAGE_FROM_REMOTE packets. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to drop arbitrary files in the vulnerable machine in order to gain remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
PeerCast HTTP Server Buffer Overflow exploit
PeerCast is prone to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for remote arbitrary code execution.
Perdition IMAP proxy str_vwrite format string exploit
The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an IMAP tag with a null byte followed by a format string specifier, which is not counted by the mechanism.
The highlight parameter in the viewtopic.php script is not properly sanitized when it is decoded, this is exploited by this module to execute arbitrary php code on a vulnerable server in order to upload and execute an agent. When the target platform is Windows, this module leaves a file at the phpBB installation path with the name: decoded-XXXXXX.exe (where XXXXXX is a random number). This file will not be removed on agent uninstall, so it must be manually deleted.
This module abuses a vulnerability in phpMyAdmin 3.5.x before 3.5.8 and 4.x before 4.0.0-rc3 that allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a /e\x00 sequence, which is not properly handled before making a preg_replace function call within the "Replace table prefix" feature.
This module exploits a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in PHPMyAdmin installing an agent. In PHPMyAdmin 3.0.0 RC1 it works with MYSQL 5 and above. In PHPMyAdmin 2.9.11 and below, it works if the databes is before MYSQL 5 This module starts a web server on the Core Impact Console to publish the agent, which is downloaded from the target. It only works for Cookie-Authenticated sites.
PHP apache_request_headers Function Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow in PHP. The specific flaw is in the apache_request_handlers() function. The apache_request_handlers() function fails to validate the length of certain headers in the HTTP request and blindly copy all the string received in the vulnerable header to the stack causing a buffer overflow.
This module exploits an argument injection vulnerability in PHP up to version 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 when running as a standalone CGI processor and takes advantage of the -d flag to achieve remote code execution.
This module exploits a vulnerability in PHP Charts 1.0. The url.php script evals every single GET key/value pair, leading to code execution.
Linux
Exploits / Remote
Impact
PHP memory_limit exploit
This module exploits the following vulnerability, as described by the CVE database: "The memory_limit functionality in PHP 4.x up to 4.3.7, and 5.x up to 5.0.0RC3, under certain conditions such as when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a memory_limit abort during execution of the zend_hash_init function and overwriting a HashTable destructor pointer before the initialization of key data structures is complete." However, this exploit does not use the zend_hash_init technique used by other proof-of-concept codes and research papers, and
PineApp Mail SeCure ldapsynchnow.php Remote Code Execution Exploit
Insufficient sanitization in PineApp Mail SeCure ldapsyncnow.php lead to remote code execution.
Linux
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Plone popen2 Remote Command Execution Exploit
This module exploits a remote command execution vulnerability in the Zope web application server used by Plone, by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected web site. The vulnerability exists because it is possible to remotely invoke the popen2 function from the Python os package with arbitrary arguments in the context of the affected server. This can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the target machine.
PoPToP PPTP server before 1.1.4-b3 allows remote attackers to execute code via a length field of 0 or 1, which causes a negative value to be fed into a read operation, leading to a buffer overflow.
Postgres Plus Advanced Server DBA Management Server Remote Code Execution Exploit
The DBA Management Server component of EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server does not restrict access to the underlying JBoss JMX Console. This can be abused by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable server. This module uploads an arbitrary .WAR application to the target in order to deploy an agent on it. On Windows targets, the deployed agent will run with SYSTEM privileges.
Windows, Linux
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Procyon Core Server HMI Scada Coreservice Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Procyon Core Server. A remote user can send specially crafted data to TCP port 23 to trigger a stack overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
A backdoor introduced by attackers allows unauthenticated users remote root access to systems which run the maliciously modified version of the ProFTPD daemon.