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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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IBM SPSS SamplePower C1sizer ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit
A vulnerability exists in C1sizer.ocx when handling the TabCaption buffer: C1sizer.ocx does not properly check the size before running lstrcatA and therefore will cause a buffer overflow. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it.
IBM SPSS SamplePower Vsflex8l ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit
A vulnerability when assign a malformed string to the ColComboList property, the module Vsflex8l does not properly check the size before copies the string into a global buffer in the data section with a static size of 0x64. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it.
IBM SPSS SamplePower Vsflex8l ActiveX Control Second Buffer Overflow Exploit
A vulnerability when assign a malformed string to the ColComboList property, the module Vsflex8l does not properly check the size before copies the string into a static buffer. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it.
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Express for Software ActiveX Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in isig.dll included in the IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager application. The exploit is triggered when the RunAndUploadFile() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. 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.
IcoFX is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when handling ICO 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the GenVersion.dll module included in the Iconics Genesis 32 application. The exploit is triggered when the SetActiveXGUID() method processes a malformed argument resulting in a memory corruption. 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.
An integer overflow in the LoadImage API of the USER32 Lib for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .bmp, .cur, .ico or .ani file with a large image size field. 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 when read by Outlook or Outlook Express. When the victim reads the HTML message a .ANI file is requested to the exploit's web server.
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 abusing a createTextRange() call on a checkbox object. When a mail user agent is used, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack.
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 triggering a race condition in the way IE handles appendChild(). When Outlook Express is used as mail user agent, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack. This exploit relies in a vulnerability that allows attackers to cause Internet Explorer to execute arbitrary code via DHTML objects.
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 sending a specially crafted HTML page which exploits the Internet Explorer Drag and Drop vulnerability. The exploit needs the user using the vulnerable browser client to scroll down the scrollbar in order to successfully install the agent.
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 sending a specially crafted HTML page which exploits the Windows ActiveX Help Control Vulnerability. When Outlook Express is used as mail user agent, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack. This exploit relies on a flaw in Windows ActiveX Help Control that allows untrusted content to access the Local Zone.
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 sending a specially crafted HTML page which exploits the Windows Media Player IE Zone Access Control Bypass 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 in the Internet Zone to read their mails.
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 sending a specially crafted HTML page which exploits the Internet Explorer Object Data Tag vulnerability. You can force vulnerable clients to connect to the web server automatically by using this module to send them a specially designed e-mail to exploit this vulnerability if the client uses Outlook Express to read their mails.
This module exploits a vulnerability caused due to a boundary error when canonicalize URLs. 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.
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 a vulnerability in the "devenum.dll" COM object when instantiated in Internet Explorer via a specially crafted HTML tag. When Outlook Express is used as mail user agent, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack.
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 a vulnerability in the "javaprxy.dll" COM object when instantiated in Internet Explorer via a specially crafted HTML tag. When Outlook Express is used as mail user agent, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1 contains a vulnerability when viewing a web site using the HTTP 1.1 protocol. If the web site uses HTTP 1.1 compression and contains an overly long URL, a buffer overflow can occur. This vulnerability was introduced with the first release of the MS06-042. 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 of the urlmon.dll library.
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 triggering a race condition in the way IE handles the call to Window function inside a javascript Onload event. When Outlook Express is used as mail user agent, Internet Explorer can be exploited through sending the target an e-mail that contains a link to the specially designed HTML page that triggers the attack.
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 instancing TLBINF32.DLL (sometimes installed as VSTLBINF.DLL) with a malicious DLL (IMPActiveX.ocx) as parameter. IMPActiveX.ocx has a helpstringdll property pointing to itself, and implements DLLGetDocumentation to install an agent.
The module starts a HTTP server in the source agent, when the victim system tries to retrieve any file, it sends a malicious HTML page that installs an agent in the victim's machine, bypassing sandbox restrictions. Taking into account the nature of this exploit, exploitation reliability depends on the browser configuration (scripting has to be enabled, by default is enabled) and other factors such as system load. This exploit needs to open some windows in the target client system, so the exploitation attempt may be noticed by a trained user.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services. This flaw is due to a memory corruption error in the XMLHTTP ActiveX Control when processing specially crafted arguments passed to a "setRequestHeader()" method, which is used to install an agent in the target host. 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.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Image22 ActiveX Control. The exploit is triggered when the DrawIcon() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. 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.
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Image Viewer CP Gold Image2PDF ActiveX Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ImageViewer2.ocx module included in the Viscom Image Viewer application. The exploit is triggered when the Image2PDF() method processes a malformed argument resulting in a memory corruption. 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 6 or 7) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ImageViewer2.ocx module included in the Viscom Image Viewer application. The exploit is triggered when the TifMergeMultiFiles() method processes a malformed argument resulting in a memory corruption. 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 6 or 7) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.