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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
CA Total Defense UNCWS Web Service getDBConfigSettings Remote Code Execution Exploit
The UNCWS Web Service component of CA Total Defense listens for SOAP requests. A remote unauthenticated attacker can invoke the getDBConfigSettings method, and the Web Service will answer with the server's database credentials. Once that the database credentials are captured, it is possible for a remote attacker to connect to the database and execute arbitrary code under the context of the database administrator.
This update adds a wrapper to any agent that is created to be directly deployed and run on target systems. This wrapper helps evade detection of the agent by Anti Virus programs.
Exploits / Tools
Impact Professional
BakBone NetVault SmartDisk Integer Overflow DoS
This module hangs the BakBone NetVault SmartDisk Server because it fails to properly handle user-supplied malformed packets.
VLC Media Player MKV File Memory Corruption Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in VideoLan Media Player (VLC). A memory corruption vulnerability in the MKV demuxer plugin (ibmkv_plugin) in VLC Media Player 1.1.6.1 and earlier allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a MKV media file.
This update improves reliability of "Pass The Hash", "Who is There" and "Remote Desktop Access" modules, which happened to have problems when executed in the context of an agent running as SYSTEM user.
Post Exploitation
Impact Professional
Symantec IM Manager Administrative Interface IMAdminSchedTask.asp Remote Code Execution Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec IM Manager. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability in that a logged in user must be coerced into visiting a malicious link. The specific flaw exists within the ScheduleTask method exposed by the IMAdminSchedTask.asp page hosted on the web interface. This function does not properly sanitize user input from a POST variable before passing it to an eval call.
Symantec IM Manager Administrative Interface IMAdminSchedTask.asp Remote Code Execution Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec IM Manager. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability in that a logged in user must be coerced into visiting a malicious link. The specific flaw exists within the ScheduleTask method exposed by the IMAdminSchedTask.asp page hosted on the web interface. This function does not properly sanitize user input from a POST variable before passing it to an eval call.
VisiWave Site Survey Report File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in VisiWave Site Survey Report when handling report files. This can be exploited to cause a stack based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .VWR file. This module bypass DEP using ROP techniques.
Microsoft Excel HFPicture Record Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-038)
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .XLS file with a malformed HFPicture (0x866) record.
Apple QuickTime _Marshaled_pUnk Backdoor Param Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit Update
QuickTime has a backdoor in QTPlugin.ocx implemented during development cycle, this can be used by execute arbitrary code under the context of the browser.
Microsoft Windows OpenType Font Double Free DoS (MS10-091)
A double free vulnerability in the OpenType Font (OTF) driver in Windows could allow local users to escalate their privileges via a specially crafted OpenType font.
IBM Lotus Domino NSFComputeEvaluateExt Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in IBM Lotus Domino by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the Web Administration Interface.
This module exploits a path traversal vulnerability in Novell ZENworks Asset Management.
The specific flaw exists within a servlet provided within the Novell Zenworks distribution for uploading files. When processing the path name for the file, the servlet will allow a user to inject path traversal entities into the filename. Then, when the servlet downloads the provided file, the destination will store it to the user-provided location.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Pointdev IDEAL Administration, when importing a project file, may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a crafted IPJ document that is opened by a local user to execute code on the system with the privileges of the user running Pointdev IDEAL Administration. This can be exploited to cause a stack based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is imported.
IBM Lotus Domino iCalendar Attachment Name Buffer Overflow Exploit
A stack-based buffer overflow exists in the nRouter.exe component of IBM Lotus Domino when parsing the filename of an attachment within an iCalendar invitation. This can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted e-mail to the Lotus Domino SMTP server.
This module bypasses Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in order to install an agent on the target machine.