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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 stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell iPrint Client when the vulnerable ienipp.ocx ActiveX component processes an overly long value for the 'call-back-url' parameter.
Novell iPrint Client Date Time Parameter Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ienipp.ocx control included in the Novell iPrint Client application. The exploit is triggered when the Date Time parameter 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.
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Novell iPrint Client by passing an overly long 'printerUri' parameter to the GetDriverSettings method of the iPrint Client ActiveX component.
Novell iPrint Client IPP Response URI Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell iPrint within the handling of functions that take a URI as a parameter allows arbitrary command execution when a user loads a specially crafted web page. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 6 7 or 8) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
The flaw exists within the nipplib.dll component. When handling the exposed method GetDriverSettings the application assembles a string for logging consisting of the hostname/port provided as a parameter. When building this message the process will blindly copy user supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the stack.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ienipp.ocx control included in the Novell iPrint Client application. The exploit is triggered when the Target Frame parameter 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ienipp.ocx control included in Novell iPrint Client v4.32 and prior. The exploit is triggered when the ExecuteRequest() 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.
This module allows remote attackers to place arbitrary files on a temporary folder in the AdminStudio LaunchHelp.dll ActiveX Control (LaunchHelp.dll 9.5.0.0). Code execution can be achieved by first uploading a vbs file, the vbs script request an exe file and execute it. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 7 or 8) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
NTR ActiveX Control Check Method Buffer Overflow Exploit
A buffer overflow vulnerability when handling a url can be exploited via a crafted "bstrParams" parameter passed to the "Check()" method. 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.
NTR ActiveX Control StopModule Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the ntractivex118.dll module included in the NTRglobal NTR Activex Control application. The exploit is triggered when the StopModule() method processes a crafted argument resulting in a 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 6, 7 and 8 in Windows XP to connect to it.
Nuance 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 .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.
Numark Cue contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Numark Cue when handling .M3U files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .M3U 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.
Use after free in Internet Explorer when an invalid reference to CFlatMarkupPointer is used. Successful control of the freed memory may leverage arbitrary code execution under the context of the user. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 9) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
This module exploits a XSS vulnerability in Openfire, which leads to remote command injection impersonating the administrator and uploading a plugin. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (any browser) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will use their cookie and try to install an agent by installing a plugin in openfire.
OpenOffice OLE DocumentSummaryInformation Heap Overflow Exploit
A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice.org processes OLE files may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides an OpenOffice.org document that is opened by a local user to execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the user running OpenOffice.org. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened. 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 heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the OpenOffice software included in most linux distributions. The vulnerability is caused by the prtdata tag with a length parameter inconsistency, which causes vtable entries to be overwritten. The exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted file distributed via an email.
OpenOffice Word sprmTDefTable Integer Overflow Exploit
OpenOffice is prone to a integer-based buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied dataa via a crafted sprmTDefTable table property modified in a Word 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.
Opera Web Browser is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized buffer.
This module exploits a XSS vulnerability in the opera:historysearch page in Opera which leads to remote command injection. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Opera) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Oracle AutoVue ActiveX Control SetMarkupMode Buffer Overflow Exploit
A buffer overflow vulnerability found in the AutoVue.ocx ActiveX control due in strcpy function in the SetMarkupMode method, when handling a specially crafted sMarkup argument. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 6 and 7 without JAVA, and Internet Explorer 8 with JAVA 6 in Windows XP, and Internet Explorer 8 and 9 in Windows VISTA/SEVEN with Java 6 installed) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
Oracle AutoVue ActiveX control can be exploited to create or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the currently logged-on user.
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Oracle AutoVue Electro-Mechanical Professional dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit
Oracle AutoVue Electro-Mechanical Professional 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 .DWG file. The attacker must entice a victim into opening a specially crafted .DWG 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.
The Import Server component of Oracle WebCenter Capture is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability. This could allow command execution when a user loads a web page which calls the SetAnnotationFont method of the BlackIceDevMode.ocx ActiveX control with a overly long string argument. This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in Windows XP SP3) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by exploiting this vulnerability.
The default Java security properties configuration does not restrict access to certain objects in the com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver packages. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user.
The sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoader class of Oracle Java does not properly validate if the URL of a Java class file matches the "codebase" parameter while loading applets. This vulnerability allows an applet to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox without restrictions, which can be exploited to install an agent on the target machine.