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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?
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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
Sysax SSH Username Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow on Sysax Multi Server when parsing an overly long username at the beginning of an SSH session.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
XM Easy Personal FTP Server PORT DoS
This module shuts down the XM Easy Personal FTP server.
Zend Server Java Bridge Design Flaw Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Java Bridge component of Zend Server.
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Microsoft Windows LNK Shortcut Automatic DLL Loading Exploit (MS15-020)
Microsoft Windows is prone to a vulnerability that may allow a DLL file to be automatically loaded because the software fails to handle LNK files properly. Specifically, the issue occurs when loading the icon of a shortcut file. A specially crafted LNK file can cause Windows to automatically execute code that is specified by the shortcut file. The attacker must entice a victim into viewing a specially crafted shortcut. The shortcut file and the associated binary may be delivered to a user through removable drives. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Zope standard_error_message Cross Site Scripting Exploit
Unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user via a "standard_error_message" template. 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 2.12.2, 2.11.5 and 2.10.21. Other versions may also be affected. Once the vulnerability is confirmed by Core Impact, if you want to check this exploit manually, replace the "REPLACE" keyword with "%80".
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Xampp php_self Cross Site Scripting Exploit
XAMPP suffers from multiple XSS issues in several scripts that use the 'PHP_SELF' variable. The vulnerabilities can be triggered in the 'xamppsecurity.php', 'cds.php' and 'perlinfo.pl' because there isn't any filtering to the mentioned variable in the affected scripts. Attackers can exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Wordpress NextGEN Gallery Plugin Cross Site Scripting Exploit
This vulnerability results from an unsanitized input that can be crafted into an attack by manipulating the 'mode' parameter of the xml/media-rss.php script of NextGen Gallery plugin installation. Version 1.5.1 is verified as vulnerable. Older versions are probably affected too, but they were not tested at this time. Currently only Internet Explorer (version 6,7 and 8 with XSS filter disabled) is verified as vulnerable.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Wordpress Google Analytics Plugin Cross Site Scripting Exploit
Input passed to the "s" parameter in index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user in googleanalytics.php. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.2.4. Other versions may be affected.
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Microsoft Windows Telnet Credential Reflection ClientSide Exploit (MS09-042)
This module implements the SMB Relay attack to install an agent in the target machine.
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
Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 BKHOdeq Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow in Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 by using its BKHOdeq.exe service. The BKHOdeq.exe service, started when running the FCS / Test Function listens by default on TCP/20109, TCP/20171 and UDP/1240. By sending a specially crafted packet to the port TCP/20171 its possible to trigger a stack based buffer overflow which allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the CENTUM user.
Exploits a vulnerability in the Real VNC server to bypass the password authentication. A compatible VNC client is required. This exploit proxies TCP connections to a remote (or local) VNC server and monitors the list of supported authentication methods of the server. Connecting clients will receive a dummy list consisting of only one authentication method (no password). Unlike other exploits, this module does not deploy any agents.
This vulnerability abuses a metacharacter injection vulnerability in the diff.php script. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the www-data user account.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Awstats migrate Remote Code Execution Exploit
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.
Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 BKBCopyD Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack based buffer overflow in Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 by using its BKBCopyD.exe service. The Yokogawa Centum CS3000 solution uses different services in order to provide all its functionality. The BKBCopyD.exe service, started when running the FCS / Test Function, listens by default on TCP/20111. By sending a specially crafted packet to the port TCP/20111, it it is possible to trigger a stack based buffer overflow which allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the CENTUM user.
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
Typo3 Cross Site Scripting Exploit
This module exploits insecure randomness vulnerability in Typo3, which leads to XSS attacks. This module tries to guess the Typo3 encryptionKey by exploiting its insecure randomness. If guessed, it will install an XSS Agent.Thanks to Chris John Riley for the info about the bug. http://www.c22.cc/TYPO3-InsecureRandomness.txt
Exploits / Cross Site Scripting (XSS) / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
TwonkyMedia Server Error Page Cross Site Scripting Exploit
Input passed via the URL is not properly sanitised 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