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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Title
Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management TFTPD Remote DoS
This module shuts down the novell-tftp.exe server because it fails to properly handle user-supplied malformed packets.
This module exploits a NULL pointer dereference in NVIDIA Reality Server Software, when a crafted package is send to port 1935.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
ISC DHCP Remote DoS
This module exploits a vulnerability in ISC DHCP Server. The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of DHCP requests within dhcpd in the "cons_options()" function in options.c. This causes a stack-based buffer corruption by sending a specially crafted DHCP request specifying a maximum message size smaller than 278 bytes. This module, if successful, will leave the DHCP daemon unavailable.
This module exploits the following vulnerability, as described by the CVE database: "A logic error in the IP fragment cache functionality in pf in FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, and 6.0, and OpenBSD, when a 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl' rule is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted packets that cause a packet fragment to be inserted twice."
This module exploits the following vulnerability: during a null pointer dereference in relation with special crafted IP datagrams. If the firewall handles such a packet the kernel panics.
OpenLDAP modrdn Request Multiple Vulnerabilities DoS
This module exploits a null pointer vulnerability in the OpenLDAP service when parsing a malformed requests. The vulnerability is exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to write an existing value with an empty one. The service will be automatically restarted after 1-2 minutes. To keep the service down set KEEP_TRYING parameter true
This module sends HTTP requests with specially crafted data making the PHP process consume lot of resources. This attack prevents the victim server from processing requests from legitimate clients and probably will make the server non-operational. The PATH parameter must point to a PHP web page, which they normally have a ".php" extension.
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Microsoft's PPTP (Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol) implementation. Both the PPTP server and client applications are vulnerable. It is possible to crash the kernel of the target (blue screen), the installation of an agent using this vulnerability is difficult and have not been implemented in this module.
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in the Serva32 HTTP Server by sending a malformed packet to the 80/TCP port to crash the application.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
Serva TFTPD Service Large Read Requests Parsing DoS
The Serva32 TFTPD service is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing large read requests. When the application reads in a large buffer the application crashes
By sending a specially crafted SMB packet, this exploit performs a Denial of Service attack on the target machine. The attack will trigger an operating system halt (Blue Screen).
By sending a specially crafted SMB packet, this exploit performs a Denial of Service attack on the target machine. The attack will trigger a operating system halt (Blue Screen).
This module shuts down the Solar FTP Server(sfsservice.exe)because it fails to properly handle user-supplied commands.
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
Impact
Squid Web Proxy Cache HTTP Version Number DoS
A parsing error when parsing the HTTP version causes a Squid cache process to terminate. This module sends HTTP requests that exploits this vulnerability. After repeating this several times the Squid cache stops and it doesn't restart.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Java System Web Server, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors when processing malformed "TRACE" or "OPTIONS" requests, or overly long "Authorization: Digest" headers, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code. This exploit forces the server process to throw an unhandled exception and be restarted.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Symantec AMS Intel Handler service by sending a malformed packet to the 38292/TCP port to crash the application.
This module shuts down the TYPSoft FTP Server because it fails to properly handle user-supplied malformed packets using for login the Anonymous user provided by default for the program