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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
FlashGet FTP PWD Response Buffer Overflow Exploit
This exploit takes advantage of a vulnerability that allows attackers to cause FlashGet to execute arbitrary code via a malformed FTP PWD response.
Foxit Phantom PDF Suite Title Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit
Foxit Phantom PDF Suite is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data via a crafted .PDF document. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Foxit Reader Compact Font Format Buffer Overflow Exploit
A vulnerability has been identified in Foxit Reader, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a stack-based buffer overflow error when processing Compact Font Format (CFF) data within a PDF document, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document. This vulnerability is the same that is currently being exploited to jailbreak the iPhone 4 OS.
Foxit PDF Reader is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named dwmapi.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder than a .PDF file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .HEX 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.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Foxit Reader Plugin npFoxitReaderPlugin that is exposed when loading PDF files from remote hosts with overly long query strings within the URL. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Firefox) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Foxit Reader imgseg DLL Hijacking Exploit
Foxit Reader is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the loading and execution of any library file named imgseg.dll, if this dll is located in a determined subfolder where a .PDF file is. 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.
This module exploits an unsafe Javascript API implemented in Foxit PDF Reader version 4.2. The createDataObject() Javascript API function allows for writing arbitrary files to the file system. This issue was fixed in version 4.3.1.0218.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Foxit Reader Javascript Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing format strings containing a floating point specifier in the "util.printf()" JavaScript function. 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 module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Foxit Reader. If an Open/Execute a file action is defined in the PDF file with an overly long file name argument, when the trigger condition is satisfied it will cause a stack-based buffer overflow, because the application tries to copy the file name argument to a fixed-size buffer in the stack without properly checking that the buffer is large enough to hold the file name string. 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.
Foxit Reader Title Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit
Foxit Reader is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data via a crafted .PDF document. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Freeamp FAT File Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in FreeAmp 2.0.7. The buffer overflow is triggered when a specially crafted theme file is opened. This module runs a malicious web site on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to download the attack file. For convenience reasons the exploit file is send zipped to the victim who should then import the .fat.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Free CD to MP3 Converter WAV File Buffer Overflow Exploit
Free CD to MP3 Converter by Eusing Software contains a buffer prone to exploitation via a specially crafted WAV file. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Free Download Manager. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processing of torrent files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened. 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.
Free MP3 CD Ripper contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Free MP3 CD Ripper when handling .WAV files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .WAV file. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer, Outlook) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by sending a specially crafted JPEG file which exploits the GDI JPEG vulnerability. You can force vulnerable clients to connect to the web server automatically by using this module to send them an specially designed e-mail to exploit this vulnerability if the client uses Outlook Express to read their mails.
GetRight is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named SvcTagLib.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder than a .GRX file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .GRX 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.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
GE Proficy Historian KeyHelp ActiveX LaunchTriPane Code Execution Exploit
GE Proficy Historian is prone to a Code execution vulnerability in the KeyScript ActiveX control from keyhelp.ocx. The function LaunchTriPane use the -decompile option and can be abused to write arbitrary files on the remote system. The attacker must entice a victim into browsing a specially crafted web page. The LaunchTriPane ActiveX method request crafted chm files and write the embeded binaries in a controlled location may be delivered to a user through remote WebDAV shares. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Ghostscript software included in most Linux distributions. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the ICC parser at the zseticcspace function in zicc.c in Ghostscript 8.61 and earlier. The exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted file distributed via an email.
CuteZIP is prone to a stack based buffer overflow when opening specially crafted ZIP files. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
GNOME Dia PySys_SetArgv Remote Command Execution Exploit
A design error has been discovered in GNOME's Dia, which can be exploited by sending a malicious file to vulnerable victims. Note: To exploit this vulnerability, GNOME's Dia must be called in the same directory where the malicious files have been decompressed
A design error has been discovered in GNOME's gEdit, which can be exploited by sending a malicious file to vulnerable victims. Note: To exploit this vulnerability, gEdit must be called in the same directory where the malicious files have been decompressed
This module exploits a vulnerability in the GomWeb3.dll control included in the GoM Player ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. 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 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.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of a .ASX file with a long URI in the "ref href" tag. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .ASX file. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
Google Earth is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of quserex.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .KMZ file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .KMZ 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.
Google Sketchup fails to validate the input when parsing an crafted skp file with Pict texture, leading to an arbitrary stack offset overwrite and finally to an arbitrary code execution. This module runs a malicious web server on the Core Impact Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.