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
Microsoft Firewall Remote DoS
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.
Soulseek Server Peer Search Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Soulseek Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Soulseek Server is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Specifically, this issue occurs when performing a direct peer file search.
Input passed to the SECURITY_FILE parameter in dm-albums/template/album.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
SolarWinds Storage Manager Server SQL Injection Authentication Bypass Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the SolarWinds Storage Manager Server. The LoginServlet page available on port 9000 is vulnerable to SQL injection via the loginName field. An attacker can send a specially crafted username and execute arbitrary SQL commands leading to remote code execution.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sun Web Server Webdav service when parsing OPTION requests. After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. The process being exploited is usually run as root.
After successful exploitation an agent will be deployed. This agent will inherit the user identity and capabilities of the abused service, usually root.
This module exploits a local privilege escalation vulnerability in certain packages shipped with Sun xVM VirtualBox for the Linux platform. After successful exploitation an agent running as root will be installed.
Wordpress DM Albums Plugin security_file Remote File Inclusion Exploit
Input passed to the SECURITY_FILE parameter in wp-content/plugins/dm-albums/template/album.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
Exploits / Remote File Inclusion / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
SQL Server CVE-2002-0649 exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft SQL Server. After successful exploitation an agent will be installed. If the attack was not successful, the server might stop responding (one-shot-exploit).
Zen Cart record_company Remote Code Execution Exploit
Zen Cart is prone to a vulnerability that attackers can leverage to execute arbitrary code. This issue occurs in the 'admin/record_company.php' script. Specifically, the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input to the 'frmdt_content' parameter of the 'record_company_image' array.
Symantec AMS Intel Alert Service AMSSendAlertAck Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Symantec AMS Intel Alert Handler Service and install an agent into the target machine.
A Remote Code Execution issue has been found in Zabbix version 1.6.2 and no authentication is required in order to exploit this vulnerability. Magic Quotes must be turned off in order to exploit this vulnerability. NOTE: Magic quotes is no longer supported by PHP starting with PHP 6.0
Linux, Mac OS X
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Sunway Force Control SCADA SMNP NetDBServer Buffer Overflow Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software using Sunway Force Control SCADA. A stack based buffer overflow in the SNMP NetDBServer service of Sunway Forcecontrol is triggered when sending an overly long string to the listening service on port 2001. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Sunway Force Control SCADA httpsvr Exploit
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing Sunway Force Control SCADA. A buffer-overflow vulnerability affects the httpsvr.exe webserver included in the device. This issue occurs when handling an excessively large URI. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
Sophos Web Protection Appliance clear_keys.pl Privilege Escalation Exploit
The /opt/cma/bin/clear_keys.pl Perl script in Sophos Web Protection Appliance, which can be executed by the 'spiderman' user with the sudo command without password, is prone to an OS command injection vulnerability, because its close_connections() function does not escape the second argument of the script before using it within a string that will be executed as a command by using backticks. This vulnerability can be abused to escalate privileges within the appliance from 'spiderman' to root.
Multiple integer overflows in Microsoft ASN.1 library (MSASN1.DLL), as used in LSASS.EXE, CRYPT32.DLL, and other Microsoft executables and libraries on Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via ASN.1 encodings that cause arbitrary heap data to be overwritten.
Sophos Web Protection Appliance sblistpack Command Injection Exploit
The /opt/ws/bin/sblistpack Perl script in Sophos Web Protection Appliance, which can be reached from the web interface, is vulnerable to an OS command injection because its get_referers() function does not escape the first argument of the script before using it within a string that will be executed as a command by using backticks. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the affected appliance. The agent installed by this exploit runs with the privileges of the 'spiderman' user.