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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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A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the DECT dissector of Wireshark. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the Wireshark executable to crash or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Wireshark.
Microsoft WINS Arbitrary Association delete exploit
Exploits a condition where a remote user can arbitrary control the pointer to the association contained in a "Association Delete Message". This condition is abused to corrupt a function pointer in the application and install an agent. At the same time, another option of the protocol is used to populate the heap with executable code and increase the success possibilities.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing WinComLPD. A remote user can send specially crafted data to TCP port 13500 to trigger a stack overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing XBMC. A boundary error within the websHomePageHandler() function can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted GET HTTP request with an overly long path to the web server.
An internal memory buffer may be overrun while handling long "SIZE" command. This condition may be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the WFTPD Server process. The WFTPD Server server will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
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.
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.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing WinGate. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of POST requests. This may allow execution of arbitrary code by sending an overly long, specially crafted POST request to the proxy server.
There is a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack. An attacker able to cause a user to follow a specially crafted malicious link may be able to recover session identifiers or exploit browser vulnerabilities. The orderby parameter is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
Eval injection vulnerability in reserve.php in phpScheduleIt 1.2.10 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via the start_date parameter.
phpMyAdmin is vulnerable to a remote code execution due the use of the unserialize method on user supplied data. This data is written in the config file and is accessible from the internet by default.
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 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.
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.
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.