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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This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The specific flaw exists within the application explicitly trusting a string's length embedded within a particular file that is loaded by the 3difr.x3d plugin. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
Adobe Acrobat X Pro updaternotifications DLL Hijacking Exploit
Adobe Acrobat X Pro is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named updaternotifications.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as a .PDF file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .PDF file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
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Adobe Device Central CS4 ibfs32 DLL Hijacking Exploit
Adobe Device Central CS4 is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of ibfs32.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .ADCP file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .ADCP file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe Device Central CS5 dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit
Adobe Device Central CS5 is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .ADCP file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .ADCP file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .DWT file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .DWT file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .JSX file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .JSX file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe Extension Manager CS5 is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .MXI file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .MXI file. This file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX SWF Memory Corruption Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted SWF file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works only with ActiveX implementation (Flash9e.ocx) of Adobe Flash Player through Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This module exploits an improper validation of array index vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. When implementing an ActionScript function with a variable number of arguments it's possible to index the arguments array outside its bounds. This can be leveraged to read arbitrary memory and leak memory content, allowing the exploit to bypass ASLR, and to invoke the constructor of a class with an arbitrary memory address containing attacker-controlled data instead of a valid ActionScript object.
This module exploits an integer underflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during February 2014.
Adobe Flash Player ByteArray UncompressViaZlibVariant Use-After-Free Exploit
Adobe Flash Player is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability because the ByteArray::UncompressViaZlibVariant method frees an object while leaving a dangling pointer that can be later dereferenced. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by enticing unsuspecting users to visit a website serving a specially crafted SWF Flash file. This vulnerability has been found being actively exploited in-the-wild during January 2015.
Adobe Flash Player casi32 Integer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits an integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player. The specific flaw exists within the implementation of casi32. The issue lies in the failure to properly sanitize a user-supplied length value with a specific array implementation. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code within the context of the current process.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted .SWF file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works with the ActiveX implementation (Flash10i.ocx and prior versions) of Adobe Flash Player through Microsoft Internet Explorer and also with the Mozilla Firefox Plugin (NPSWF32.dll).
Adobe Flash Player copyPixelsToByteArray Heap Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player. The bug is triggered by calling BitmapData.copyPixelsToByteArray() with a reference to a ByteArray that has its position property set very large, close to 2^32. This results in an integer overflow in 32-bit arithmetic and allows an attacker to take control of the target machine.
Adobe Flash Player _error Object Confusion Exploit
This module exploits an object type confusion vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The specific error occurs due to the way Adobe Flash handles the AMF0 response (_error) when connecting to a malicious RTMP server. By supplying a crafted AMF0 response it is possible to execute arbitrary code in the context of the vulnerable application.
Adobe Flash Player Linux Command Injection Exploit
This module exploits a command injection in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted SWF file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works only with Adoble flash player for Linux V 10.0.12.36 (Flash player 9 is not supported).
Adobe Flash Player MP4 cprt Buffer Overflow Exploit
A code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Adobe Flash Player handles specially crafted .MP4 files when opening in Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Adobe Flash Player MP4 SequenceParameterSetNALUnit Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted .MP4 file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works with the ActiveX implementation of Adobe Flash Player through Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This module exploits a compilation logic error in the PCRE engine in Adobe Flash Player. The handling of the \c escape sequence when followed by a multi-byte UTF8 character, allows arbitrary code execution of PCRE bytecode.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player in the flash.Display.Shader class when setting a Pixel Bender Filte as the Shader bytecode. This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during April 2014.
Adobe Flash Player SharedObject Use-After-Free Exploit
Adobe Flash Player is prone to a use-after-free vulnerability when finishing a Worker thread containing a SharedObject. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by convincing an unsuspecting user to visit a web site containing a specially crafted SWF file. This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during February 2014.
Adobe Flash Player shared ByteArray Use-After-Free Exploit
This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The method ByteArray::clear does not notify the suscriber when frees the memory assigned to a ByteArray object leaving a dangling pointer that can be later dereferenced. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by enticing unsuspecting users to visit a website serving a specially crafted SWF Flash file. This vulnerability was found exploited in the wild in February 2015.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted SWF file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works only with ActiveX implementation (Flash9e.ocx) of Adobe Flash Player through Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted .SWF file. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site. This exploit works with the ActiveX implementation (Flash10b.ocx and prior versions) of Adobe Flash Player through Microsoft Internet Explorer and also with the Mozilla Firefox Plugin (NPSWF32.dll).
Adobe Flash Player SWF File Memory Corruption Exploit
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player when parsing a specially crafted .SWF file, which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by convincing an unsuspecting user to visit a malicious web site. This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during April 2011.