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
Zoom Player BMP File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit
Zoom Player is prone to a stack based buffer overflow when opening specially crafted BMP files. 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.
7T Interactive Graphical SCADA System ODBC Server Remote Memory Corruption DoS
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in the IGSS ODBC Server by sending a malformed packet to the 20222/TCP port to crash the application.
Active Directory, which is an essential component of the Windows 2000 architecture, presents organizations with a directory service designed for distributed computing environments. Active Directory allows organizations to centrally manage and share information on network resources and users while acting as the central authority for network security. The directory services provided by Active Directory are based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and thus Active Directory objects can be stored and retrieved using the LDAP protocol.
Active Directory, which is an essential component of the Windows 2000 architecture, presents organizations with a directory service designed for distributed computing environments. Active Directory allows organizations to centrally manage and share information on network resources and users while acting as the central authority for network security. The directory services provided by Active Directory are based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and thus Active Directory objects can be stored and retrieved using the LDAP protocol.
This module sends HTTP requests with incomplete headers that prevents the Apache server to accept connections from legitimate clients. When the module is stopped the server continues working normally.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
Apache mod_isapi Denial of Service Exploit
The mod_isapi module unloads ISAPI modules before the request processing is complete, potentially leaving orphaned callback pointers behind. This can be exploited by sending a specially crafted request followed by a reset packet.
This module sends HTTP requests with specially crafted headers making Apache server consume a lot of resources. This attack prevents the victim server from accepting connections from legitimate clients and probably would make the server non-operational. The performance of this exploit depends on the contents of the path parameter. It works better when the requested path points to a static html page, and it's size is not too small.
Apple CUPS IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED Handling Null-pointer DoS
This module exploits a null pointer vulnerability in the cupsd service when parsing malformed IPP requests on Apple CUPS. The vulnerability is exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted IPP request packet containing two IPP_TAG_UNSUPPORTED tags.
Apple Mac OS X DirectoryService SwapProxyMessage Unchecked objOffset Remote DoS
This module exploits a vulnerability in Mac OS X Directory Service Proxy by sending a crafted packet to port TCP 625, causing a denial of service effect.
This module triggers a remote vulnerability that allows an attacker to send a NULL UDP message to an affected system, causing an infinit loop in the avahi-daemon service.
Avast Internet Security aswFW Driver IOCTL Handling Local DoS
This module exploits a vulnerability in Avast Internet Security driver (aswFW.sys). The IOCTL handler in the aswFW.sys device driver allows local users to overwrite memory via malformed parameters.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Avast Internet Security driver (aswFW.sys). The IOCTL handler in the aswFW.sys device driver allows local users to overwrite memory via malformed parameters.
This module shuts down the Cerberus FTP Server because it fails to properly handle user-supplied input with an overly long USER command.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
Cisco IPv4 DoS
Cisco routers are configured to process and accept Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) packets by default. IPv4 packets handled by the processor on a Cisco IOS device with protocol types of 53 (SWIPE), 55 (IP Mobility), or 77 (Sun ND), all with Time-to-Live (TTL) values of 1 or 0, and 103 (Protocol Independent Multicast - PIM) with any TTL value, may force the device to incorrectly flag the input queue on an interface as full. A full input queue will stop the device from processing inbound traffic on that interface and may result in routing protocols dropping due to dead timers.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Citrix EdgeSight Software, when a crafted package is send to port 18747.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
Computer Associates eTrust Secure Content Manager DoS
The eCS component (ECSQdmn.exe) in CA ETrust Secure Content Manager 8.0 and CA Gateway Security 8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted request to port 1882, involving an incorrect integer calculation and a heap-based buffer overflow.
This module sends a series of UDP packets containing malformed IAX2 requests that will crash vulnerable listening IAX clients. If a broadcast IP address is specified, an entire subnetwork can be attacked in a single run.