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
Microsoft Internet Explorer SetMouseCapture Use-After-Free Exploit
This module exploits a use after free in Internet Explorer by using a SetMouseCapture vulnerability in MSHTML. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer SLayoutRun Use-After-Free Exploit (MS13-009)
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer where a CParaElement node is released but a reference is still kept in CDoc. This memory is reused when a CDoc relayout is performed. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Style Object Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer when handling a specially crafted STYLE HTML tag when accessed via the document.getElementsByTagName JavaScript function. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Tabular Data Control ActiveX Exploit (MS10-018)
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The flaw exists within the Tabular Data Control ActiveX module, if provided a malicious DataURL parameter a stack corruption may occur in the function CTDCCtl::SecurityCHeckDataURL. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 6) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Time Element Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-050)
This module exploits a Memory Corruption vulnerability on Internet Explorer 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer MSHTML CMarkup Use-After-Free Exploit
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 10) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability. This exploit will only work if the target has Adobe Flash Player 10 or above installed.
Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 7 when handling malformed xml data. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Core Services MSXML Uninitialized Memory Exploit
Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0, as used by Internet Explorer, accesses uninitialized memory locations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by enticing an unsuspecting user to visit a specially crafted 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.
Microsoft Jet Database Engine Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database (msjet40.dll) through a Microsoft Word document. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in msjet40.dll within the processing of MDB 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database (msjet40.dll) trough a Microsoft Access Document. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in msjet40.dll within the processing of MDB 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.
Microsoft MDAC RDS.Dataspace ActiveX Control Exploit
This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer with a vulnerable RDS.Dataspace ActiveX Control) 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 Microsoft MDAC RDS.Dataspace ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Codecs Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-026)
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows MPEG Layer-3 codecs when parsing a malformed .AVI file. 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.
Microsoft .NET Framework CLR Virtual Method Delegate Exploit (MS10-060)
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in the .NET Framework through Internet Explorer. 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.
Microsoft Notepad wab32res COM Server-based Binary Planting Exploit
Microsoft Notepad is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of wab32res.dll.
Windows
Exploits / Client Side
Impact
Microsoft Office Access Database Processing Pointers Exploit (MS13-074)
Microsoft Access contains a vulnerability in the way it handles compiled queries that are stored in .acdb files. It mistakenly interprets certain fields in the file as pointers and produce memory corruption. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Microsoft Office Assembly Execution Exploit (MS12-005)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Powerpoint handles specially crafted Powerpoint files. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Microsoft Office Drawing Format Shape Exploit (MS09-062)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Microsoft Office Powerpoint when parsing a .PPT document with a specially crafted msofbtOPT record type. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Microsoft Office Excel DBQueryExt Record Parsing Exploit (MS10-038)
This module exploits an arbitrary pointer dereference on Microsoft Office Excel XP while parsing a malformed .XLS file with a specially crafted DBQueryExt record.
This module exploits an error during processing of FORMAT records when loading Excel files into memory that can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted XLS file containing an out-of-bounds array index. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable Cache Data Record Parsing Exploit (MS10-057)
This module exploits a memory corruption on Microsoft Office Excel when parsing a malformed .XLS file with a specially crafted PivotTable Cache Data record.
Microsoft Office Excel RTD Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-038)
A malformed Microsoft Excel document allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code when processing malformed RTD (recType 0x813) records. 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.
Microsoft Office Excel RTD Data Record Processing Stack Overwrite Exploit (MS11-021)
A malformed Microsoft Excel document allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code when processing malformed RTD records. 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.