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
Corel PHOTO-PAINT crlrib DLL Hijacking Exploit
Corel PHOTO-PAINT is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of crlrib.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .CPT file.
Microsoft Office Word RTF Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-087)
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word by sending a specially crafted .RTF file with a malformed pFragments record.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
The BlogAPI module does not validate the extension of files that it is used to upload, enabling users with the "administer content with blog api" permission to upload harmful files. This module uploads an IMPACT agent, creates a php file to execute the agent and then makes a request to the file. The result is an IMPACT agent running on the webserver.
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 extSetOwner() ActiveX Exploit
Remote code execution vulnerability in Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 ActiveX when sending an invalid pointer to the extSetOwner() function of UfPBCtrl.dll.
Honestech VHS to DVD ILJ File Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer overflow when handling malformed .ilj files. This vulnerability allow execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to open a crafted ".ilj" file.
Honestech VHS to DVD ILJ File Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer overflow when handling malformed .ilj files. This vulnerability allow execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to open a crafted ".ilj" file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 extSetOwner() ActiveX Exploit
Remote code execution vulnerability in Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 ActiveX when sending an invalid pointer to the extSetOwner() function of UfPBCtrl.dll.
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.
Mac OS X AppleScript ARDAgent Shell Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The problem is that "ARDAgent", which is owned by "root" and has the setuid bit set, can be invoked to execute shell commands via AppleScript (e.g. through "osascript"). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Service Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Service. This vulnerability is currently exploited by the Stuxnet malware.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
Distcc, when not configured to restrict access to the server port, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via compilation jobs, which are executed by the server without authorization checks. This module exploits the vulnerability to install an agent.
Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security TMTDI.SYS Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security tmtdi.sys driver. The vulnerable driver trusts a dword passed from user mode via IOCTL 0x220404, and interprets it as a function pointer without performing validations. This vulnerability allows unprivileged local users to execute code with SYSTEM privileges.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader when parsing a .PDF file with a malformed Flash file embedded. This update fixes an issue in the agent connector.
The Java plugin for Internet Explorer (jp2iexp.dll) is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow when processing the docBase parameter of a Java applet. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user by enticing the victim to visit a malicious web page.
This update adds DEP bypassing capability to the exploit, and adds support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Internet Explorer 8.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS clip Attribute Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer when processing a special crafted html with CSS clip attribute.
This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
Foxit Reader Title Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit
Foxit Reader is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary-checks on user-supplied data. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a user to open a malicious PDF file containing an overly long title.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader when parsing a .PDF file with a malformed flash file embedded.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs
or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
GNU Glibc ld.so ORIGIN Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The GNU C library (GNU glibc) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. This module exploits the vulnerability to install an agent with root privileges.
Linux Kernel RDS Protocol Privilege Escalation Exploit
The Linux kernel is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability that can be exploited by local unprivileged users to gain root access, because
the RDS protocol does not properly check that the base address of a user-provided iovec struct points to a valid userspace address before using the __copy_to_user_inatomic() function to copy the data. By providing a kernel address as an iovec base and issuing a recvmsg() style socket call, a local user could write arbitrary data into kernel memory, thus escalating privileges to root.