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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Microsoft Visio visiodwg.dll Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-028)
Microsoft Visio is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. This issue arises when the application processes a crafted CAD DRAWING file (.DXF).
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.
MySQL with yaSSL SSL Certificate Handling Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
MySQL compiled with yaSSL is prone to a remote stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data.
Microsoft Office Publisher TextBox Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-023)
Buffer overflow in file conversion TextBox processing of Microsoft Office Publisher allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Publisher file.
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 application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because
it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input to the 'query'
parameter of the search pages. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
vBulletin 4.0.2 is vulnerable. This issue does not affect vBulletin 3.x
Microsoft Windows Media Services Remote Exploit (MS10-025)
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Media Services by sending a specially crafted packet to the port 1755/TCP.
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.
Wordpress NextGEN Gallery Plugin Cross Site Scripting Exploit
This vulnerability results from a reflected unsanitized input that can be crafted into an attack by a malicious user by manipulating the 'mode' parameter of the xml/media-rss.php script.
Version 1.5.1 is verified as vulnerable, older versions are probably vulnerable too but they were not tested at this time.
This module exploits a code execution vulnerability in the Veritas Web Server service by sending a specially crafted authentication request to the 14300/TCP port.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the CTSUEng.ocx control included in the Creative Software AutoUpdate application. The exploit is triggered when the CacheFolder property 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 update add support till 2.0.12.0 version of CTSUEng.ocx.
This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in SAP MaxDB by sending a specially crafted packet to 7210/TCP port.
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.
Oracle Java Soundbank Resource Name Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Oracle Java SE when jsound.dll parses a specially crafted Soundbank file.
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.
Linux Kernel Sock_Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation (sock_sendpage function) on a PF_PPPOX socket.
This update adds the 'one-shot' tag to the XML of the module.
ISC BIND Dynamic Update Message DoS Exploit Update
A vulnerability has been identified in ISC BIND, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused due to the "dns_db_findrdataset()" function failing when the prerequisite section of a dynamic update message contains a record of type "ANY" and where at least one RRset for this FQDN exists on the server, which could allow attackers to cause a vulnerable server to exit when receiving a specially crafted dynamic update message sent to a zone for which the server is the master.
This update adds more supported platforms to the exploit.
FeedDemon OPML Outline Tag Buffer Overflow Exploit
FeedDemon is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks when opening .OPML files.
This module exploits a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox via a WOFF font file embedded in a HTML.
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.
Microsoft SQL Server sp_replwritetovarbin Remote Heap Overflow Exploit Update
This module exploits a heap-based buffer overflow in the Microsoft SQL Server by sending a specially crafted SQL query. This update adds support for executestatement() functionality within the WebApps vector.
It has two uses: One as a Remote Exploit which needs authentication, and another as an SQL Injection Agent installer module, which needs an SQL Agent as a target.
Yahoo Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Yahoo Player when handling .YPL files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .YPL file.
Microsoft Internet Explorer iepeers Use-After-Free Exploit
This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability on Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
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.