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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
Microsoft Windows Win32k OTF Validation DoS (MS11-041)
This module causes a BSOD in Microsoft Windows when parsing a specially crafted OpenType font file. Only x64 systems are affected by this vulnerability.
Microsoft WINS Service Failed Response Vulnerability DoS (MS11-035)
This module exploits a vulnerability on "wins.exe" sending a DNS request packet followed by a RESET connection. When the WINS service tries to answer this request, the "send" function fails and an exception is produced triggering the bug. At the end, the WINS port ( port 42 ) is verified to know if the service is listening or it was broken.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Component (ipnathlp.dll) when Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, sending a specially crafted DNS query.
nginx Encoded Directory Traversal Denial of Service Exploit
nginx 0.8.36 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain encoded directory traversal sequences that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using the "%c0.%c0." sequence.
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.
The web interface for AWStats 6.4 and 6.5, when statistics updates are enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the migrate parameter.
Input passed to the "orderby" parameter in cmd.php (when "cmd" is set to "query_engine", "query" is set to "none", and "search" is set to e.g. "1") is not properly sanitised in lib/functions.php before being used in a "create_function()" function call. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code.
This exploits attacks pPim 1.0 software. By creating a specially crafted link an attacker can run arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server process.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
phpJobScheduler 3.0 Remote File Inclusion
This module exploits a Remote File Inclusion vulnerability in phpJobScheduler 3.0.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Symantec Web Gateway blocked_file.php Remote Code Execution Exploit
The spywall/blocked_file.php script of Symantec Web Gateway allows remote unauthenticated users to upload files with arbitrary extensions. This can be abused by attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable systems.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the logic used to authenticate a user to the administration server running on port 443. The script login.php does not properly sanitize the 'username' variable before using it in a database query. A specially crafted 'username' allows unauthorized attackers to log in with full administrative capabilities.
Symantec IM Manager IMAdminSchedTask eval Command Injection Exploit
The flaw exists within the ScheduleTask method exposed by the IMAdminSchedTask.asp page hosted on the web interface. This function does not properly sanitize user input from a POST variable before passing it to an eval call. An attacker can abuse this to inject and execute arbitrary ASP under the context of the user visiting the malicious link.
Oracle VM Server Virtual Server Agent Command Injection Exploit
By including shell meta characters within the second parameter to the 'urt_test_url' XML-RPC methodCall, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands. The service typically runs with root privileges.
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 versions.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
The vulnerability is caused by scripts using "unserialize()" with user controlled input. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code via the "__destruct()" method of the "SugarTheme" class or passing an ad-hoc serialized object through the $_REQUEST['current_query_by_page'] input variable.
Static code injection vulnerability in setup.php in phpMyAdmin 2.11.x before 2.11.9.5 and 3.x before 3.1.3.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code into a configuration file via the save action.
Input passed via the URL is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user within the search.php, sendmessage.php, showgroups.php, usercp.php, online.php, misc.php, memberlist.php, member.php, index.php, forumdisplay.php, inlinemod.php, newthread.php, private.php, profile.php, register.php, showthread.php, subscription.php, forum.php, faq.php, and calendar.php script. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. The vulnerabilities are reported in version 4.0.2. Other versions may also be affected.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
VirtualMin Dom Parameter Cross Site Scripting Exploit
Input passed to the "dom" parameter in left.cgi and via the URL to virtual-server/link.cgi is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities