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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.
Core Impact users can save time by finding all the up-to-date exploits they need in one place. We provide a robust library of exploits designed to enable pen testers to safely and efficiently conduct successful penetration tests. Whether written by our own internal team or by a third party like ExCraft, you can trust they have been thoroughly tested and validated by our experts.
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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Adobe Flash Player shared ByteArray Use-After-Free Exploit Update
This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The method ByteArray::clear does not notify the suscriber when frees the memory assigned to a ByteArray object leaving a dangling pointer that can be later dereferenced.
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines by enticing unsuspecting users to visit a website serving a specially crafted SWF Flash file.
This vulnerability was found exploited in the wild in February 2015.
There is an authentication vulnerability in the Windows debugging subsystem (smss). This allows any user to obtain a handle with any access of any process running. With this handle an agent is injected in a SYSTEM process.
The update fixes an issue with HANDLEType in win32native lib.
Exploits / Local
Impact Professional
Wordpress Comments XSS Exploit
A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the comments rendering in Wordpress 4.1.1 and previous versions. This exploit abuses a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability in Wordpress to install an OS Agent in the server running the Wordpress installation. This update includes a module that posts a comment with the cross site scripting code as a comment in a Wordpress post. The javascript code will attempt to install a Wordpress plugin everytime the post comment is rendered. The plugin will in turn install an OS agent in the server running Wordpress.
Ubuntu Linux USBCreator D-Bus Service KVMTest Privilege Escalation Exploit
The KVMTest method in the com.ubuntu.USBCreator D-Bus service in Ubuntu Linux can invoke the kvm binary with root privileges using an arbitrary environment provided by an unprivileged user.
This flaw can be leveraged by a local unprivileged attacker to gain root privileges.
Microsoft Office Shared Component DLL Hijacking Exploit (MS11-023)
Microsoft Office is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named rsaenh.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as a .dotx file.
Microsoft Windows AFD AfdConnect Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS11-046)
The Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) present in Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to an arbitrary pointer overwrite. This module allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted IOCTL to the vulnerable driver.
Microsoft Windows OpenType Font Driver Vulnerability Exploit (MS15-078) Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in "atmfd.dll" Windows driver by loading a crafted OTF font.
This update adds support to "Low Integrity Level" bypass for "Windows 8.1" 64 bits and "Windows 2012" R2 by using a kernel memory leak (CVE-2015-2433).
Adobe Acrobat Pro Multiple Vulnerabilities Exploit
A specially crafted argument to makeMeasurement will leave objects in an inconsistent state and can produce a Buffer Overflow. This data can later be retrieved via a call to dumpMeasureData.
Finally using NSendApprovalToAuthorEnabled method it is possible to bypass the Javascript API restrictions.
Adobe Flash Player AS3 Function.apply Integer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits an integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The signed integer overflow exists inside the AS3 Function.apply() method and allows an attacker to take control of a vulnearble target and execute arbitrary code.
The Usermin Control Panel is vulnerable to command injection due to the function get_signature in usermin/mailbox/mailbox-lib.pl, which calls open() without any prior validation.
This vulnerability allows authenticated users to execute arbitrary code on the affected Usermin versions.
Spring Boot Default Error Page Expression Language Injection Exploit
Spring Boot Framework 1.2.7 provides a default error page (also known as "Whitelabel Error Page"), that's prone to Spring Expression Language injection when the type of a parameter expected is not expected to be a string but a string is provided. Applications based on Spring Boot that don't deactivate the feature, or customize it in such a way as to stop the injection, are thus susceptible to execution of some Java statements and, in particular, to OS command injections.
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 it is possible to trigger a stack based buffer overflow which allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the CENTUM user.
HP SiteScope issueSiebelCmd Remote Code Execution Exploit
This module exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in HP SiteScope. The vulnerability exists in the APISiteScopeImpl web service, specifically in the issueSiebelCmd method, which allows the user to execute arbitrary commands without authentication.
An important vulnerability has been identified in ColdFusion version 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 9.0.1 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX. This directory traversal vulnerability could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2010-2861). Adobe has provided a solution for this reported vulnerability. It recomends that users update their product.
An input sanitization flaw was found in the way JBoss Seam processes certain parameterized JBoss Expression Language (EL) expressions. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via GET requests, containing specially-crafted expression language parameters, provided to web applications based on the JBoss Seam framework.
This module exploits the vulnerability in any web application based on vulnerable versions of the Seam 2 framework.
Pointdev IDEAL Migration is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the applications fail to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data, when handling .IPJ files.
Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable Cache Data Record Exploit (MS10-057)
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel by sending a malformed .XLS file with a crafted PivotTable Cache Data Record.
WARNING: This is an early release module. This is not the final version of this module. It is a pre-released version in order to deliver a module as quickly as possible to our customers that may be useful in some situations. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs
or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.