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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Exploit Type
Product Name
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.
Wordpress W3 Total Cache PHP Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in W3 Total Cache plugin for Wordpress. Certain macros such as mfunc allow to inject PHP code into comments. By injecting a crafted comment into a valid post an attacker can execute arbitrary PHP code on systems running vulnerable installations of W3 Total Cache.
The internal stack may be overrun while handling either "XMD5", "XSHA1" or "XCRC" commands with an overly long filename. This condition can be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the WS_FTP process, typically administrator or system. Exploitation requires valid or anonymous FTP server credentials. The WS_FTP server will remain active after a successful exploitation.
After successful exploitation an agent will be deployed. This agent will inherit the user identity and capabilities of the abused service, usually those of the user used to login into the ftp server (ftp, for example). However, the uid (as opposite to the euid) of the agent will be that of the super user in most cases (usually 0), and by using the setuid module (see setuid module documentation), it can be changed. When an anonymous user is used, or if the server is configured to do this for other users, the deployed agent will be running in a chroot jail.
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.
This module attacks default XAMPP installations and abuses the use of default credentials for webdav. The module can also be configured to take advantage of user supplied credentials.
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.
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.
Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Wireshark PROFINET Dissector Format String Exploit
This module exploits a format string vulnerability in the WireShark PROFINET/DCP (PN-DCP) dissector, sending a specially crafted packet. Failed attacks will likely cause denial-of-service conditions.
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.
The SSL protocol, as used in Oracle Java, encrypts data by using CBC mode with chained initialization vectors. This weakness allows to decrypt HTTP headers by a chosen plain text attack, thus obtaining browser cookies from the target system's browser corresponding to a given HTTPS server. The cookies could then be used by the user to do a session hijacking attack. This module launches the attack against target systems. This systems must be running a browser with the vulnerable Java version for this exploit to work.
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.
This module exploits a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Mantis version 1.1.3 caused by Mantis handling the sort parameter in manage_proj_page without the proper validation. This allows for remote code execution on Mantis' Web server. This module starts a web server on the Core Impact Console to publish the agent, which is downloaded from the target.
Input passed via the "page" parameter to index.php is not properly sanitised in the "Router()" function in core/lib/router.php before being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.
Linux
Exploits / Remote
Impact
Landesk Gateway Web Interface Command Injection Exploit
The LANDesk web application does not sufficiently verify if a well-formed request was created by the user whose browser submitted the request. Using this flaw an external remote attacker can use a Cross-site Request Forgery attack via a user with a LANDesk session to run arbitrary code using the gsbadmin user (that is the user running the web-server), the gsbadmin user has sudo privileges.
A vulnerability exists in the TinyMCE editor, included in the tiny browser plugin, which allows uploading files without authentication. This can be exploited to upload files with multiple extensions and execute arbitrary PHP code.
Linux, Windows
Exploits / Remote
Impact
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.