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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.

Core Impact users can save time by finding all the up-to-date exploits they need in one place. We provide a robust library of exploits designed to enable pen testers to safely and efficiently conduct successful penetration tests. Witten by our own internal team, you can trust they have been thoroughly tested and validated by our experts.

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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Title Description Date Added CVE Link Exploit Platform Exploit Type Product Name
Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit The Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) present in Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to an arbitrary memory overwrite. This module allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted IOCTL to the vulnerable driver. CVE-2023-21768 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus Apache Santuario SAML XSLT Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit A vulnerability in the library Apache Santuario SAML SSO (Single Sign-On) method used by Zoho ManageEngine products allows to unauthenticated remote code attackers to execute system commands. CVE-2022-47966 Windows, Linux Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact
Windows Common Log File System Driver Local Privilege Escalation Exploit The cause of the vulnerability is due to the lack of a strict bounds check for the SignaturesOffset field in the Base Block for the base log file (BLF) in CLFS.sys. This issue can lead to a Privilege Escalation. CVE-2022-37969 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
IBM i Privilege Escalation through Object Authority on User Profile This update adds the capability to escalate privileges for python agents running on IBM i through Object Authority on User Profile NOCVE-9999-187355 Post Exploitation Impact
Microsoft Windows NTLM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit (LocalPotato) This module exploits a design flaw in Microsoft Windows. The NTLM reflection attack in local authentication allows a local attacker to write arbitrary files and get SYSTEM privileges. CVE-2023-21746 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Go Anywhere MFT Accept Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit Update Fortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. This issue was patched in version 7.1.2.

 CVE-2023-0669 Windows, Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Go Anywhere MFT Accept Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit Fortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. This issue was patched in version 7.1.2.

 CVE-2023-0669 Windows, Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Mark Of The Web Vulnerability Checker This module verifies the Mark Of The Web Vulnerability.



Windows ZIP extraction bug (CVE-2022-41049) lets attackers craft ZIP files, which evade warnings on attempts to execute packaged files, even if ZIP file was downloaded from the Internet. 		CVE-2022-41049 Windows Information gathering / Local / Vulnerability checkers Impact
CentOS Web Panel OS Command Injection Exploit CWP (aka Control Web Panel or CentOS Web Panel) 7 before 0.9.8.1147 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in the login parameter. This module allows us to deploy an agent in a remote vulnerable target.

 CVE-2022-44877 Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Microsoft Windows Backup Service Arbitrary File Delete Exploit Update Windows Backup Service allows an unprivileged user to delete files.



This Update removes the Early Release Tag, change the default file to be deleted and make a backup of the file before deleting it. 		CVE-2023-21752 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Windows Backup Service Arbitrary File Delete Exploit Windows Backup Service allows an unprivileged user to delete files. CVE-2023-21752 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Linux Kernel Route4 Change UAF Local Privilege Escalation Exploit A use-after-free flaw was found in route4_change in the net/sched/cls_route.c filter implementation in the Linux kernel. This module allows to create a user with root privileges.

 CVE-2022-2588 Linux Exploits / Local Impact
Microsoft Exchange Powershell Remoting Objects Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit This update exploits a deserialization vulnerability in SerializationTypeConverter when converting powershell remoting objects to execute OS commands as SYSTEM. CVE-2022-41082 Windows Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact
Lenovo Vantage HardwareScanPlugin Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploit The LenovoDiagnosticsDriver.sys driver in the HardwareScanPlugin of Lenovo Vantage before 1.3.0.5 allow local non-privileged users (including low-integrity level processes) to read and write to arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges, via a function call such as MmMapIoSpace. CVE-2022-3699 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Zimbra Cpio Tar Remote Code Execution Exploit An issue was discovered in Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) 8.8.15 and 9.0. An attacker can upload arbitrary files through amavisd via a cpio loophole (extraction to /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/public) that can lead to incorrect access to any other user accounts. Zimbra recommends pax over cpio. Also, pax is in the prerequisites of Zimbra on Ubuntu; however, pax is no longer part of a default Red Hat installation after RHEL 6 (or CentOS 6). Once pax is installed, amavisd automatically prefers it over cpio. CVE-2022-41352 Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Windows Common Log File System CLFS DoS The cause of the vulnerability is due to the lack of a strict bounds check for the SignaturesOffset field in the Base Block for the base log file (BLF) in CLFS.sys. CVE-2022-37969 Windows Denial of Service / Local Impact
Microsoft Sysmon Arbitrary File Delete Write Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Vulnerability is in code responsible for ClipboardChange event that can be reached through RPC. Local users can send data to RPC server which will then be written in Sysmon directory. CVE-2022-41120 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
IBM i Access Client Solutions Java DLL hijacking Exploit IBM i Access Family could allows to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by DLL search order hijacking vulnerability. By placing a specially crafted file in a compromised folder, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. CVE-2022-40746 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact
VMware NSX Manager XStream Deserialization Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploit Due to an unauthenticated endpoint that leverages XStream for input serialization in VMware NSX Manager, an attacker can get remote code execution in the context of 'root' user account on the appliance. CVE-2021-39144 Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Exploit A java deserialization vulnerability and a blind XXE vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute system commands in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus. CVE-2022-28219 Windows Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Fortinet FortiOS FortiProxy FortiSwitchManager Auth Bypass Remote Code Execution Exploit An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability [CWE-288] in FortiOS, FortiProxy and FortiSwitchManager may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.

 CVE-2022-40684 Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact
Samba SMBv1 Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability Checker A SMB1 Client with write access to a share can cause server memory contents to be written into a file or printer. CVE-2022-32742 Linux Information gathering / Vulnerability checkers Impact
Windows Print Spooler Arbitrary File Deletion LPE Exploit This vulnerability allows an Arbitrary File Deletion in any protected folder.

Used in conjunction with other vulnerability that allows Arbitrary File Writing, an attacker could escalate from unprivileged user to SYSTEM. 		CVE-2022-30206 Windows Exploits / Local Impact
Atlassian Bitbucket Git Remote OS Command Injection Exploit OS command injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Bitbucket Server and Data Center. An attacker with access to a public Bitbucket repository or with read permissions to a private one can execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious HTTP request. CVE-2022-36804 Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Linux Kernel Netfilter Set Element Init TC HBO Local Privilege Escalation Exploit A type confusion bug in nft_set_elem_init (leading to a buffer overflow) could be used by a local attacker to escalate privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-32250. (The attacker can obtain root access, but must start with an unprivileged user namespace to obtain CAP_NET_ADMIN access.) This can be fixed in nft_setelem_parse_data in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c.

 CVE-2022-34918 Linux Exploits / Local Impact
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