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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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OpenX Remote Code Execution Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to the banner-edit.php script allowing the upload of files with arbitrary extensions to a folder inside the webroot. This can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a specially crafted PHP script that contains the GIF magic number.
OpenKM allows administrative users (those having the AdminRole) to run bean shell scripts. Due to this permission an attacker could lure an OpenKM administrator to a malicious web page that causes arbitrary OS commands to run in the administrators OpenKM session context.
op5 Appliance contains an input validation flaw related to the system-portal component that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands via command injection.
An internal memory buffer may be overrun while handling long "APPE" command. This condition may be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the ftpbasicsvr.exe process. UplusFtp server will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
VERITAS Backup Exec Agent exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in VERITAS Backup Exec Remote Agent 9.0 through 10.0 for Windows, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CONNECT_CLIENT_AUTH request with authentication method type 3 (Windows credentials) and a long password argument. This module only works with localagent set as source.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
WarFTPd USER-PASS Overflow exploit
WarFTPd is a popular FTP server for Windows systems. WarFTPd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the way it handles the PASS command. This bug will be exploited in order to install an agent into the target machine. The WarFTPd server will be left inaccessible after successful exploitation.
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.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
VERITAS NetBackup BPJava Exploit
NetBackup Java user-interface is affected by a remote format string vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious request that contains format specifiers. A successful attack may result in crashing the server or lead to arbitrary code execution. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation with SYSTEM or superuser privileges.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Vermillion FTP Daemon, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error with the handling of PORT commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted command passed to the affected server.
This module exploits a SQL Injection vulnerability in Drupal.An attacker can send a specially crafted data and execute arbitrary SQL commands leading to remote code execution.
Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
Drupal BlogAPI Remote Code Execution Exploit
The BlogAPI module does not validate the extension of files that it is used to upload, enabling users with the "administer content with blog api" permission to upload harmful files. This module uploads an Core Impact agent, creates a php file to execute the agent and then makes a request to the file. The result is an Core Impact agent running on the webserver.
include/imageObjectIM.class.php in Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) before 1.4.15, when the ImageMagick picture processing method is configured, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) quality, (2) angle, or (3) clipval parameter to picEditor.php.