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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
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CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Yahoo Messenger Webcam ActiveX Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Yahoo Messenger Webcam 8.1 ActiveX Control (ywcvwr.dll). When the Receive() method processes a long string argument, a stack based buffer overflow occurs allowing execution of arbitrary code. This exploit is triggered when an unsuspecting user is lured into visiting a malicious web-site hosted by CORE IMPACT.
Microsoft Windows GDI Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the way that Microsoft Windows manages GDI kernel structures in shared memory. An attacker could remap a global shared memory section that is defined to be read-only to read-write allowing them to execute arbitrary code and gain additional privileges on the target system.
Microsoft Windows Win32k Keyboard Layout Vulnerability Exploit (MS12-034) Update 6
This update adds support to Microsoft Windows 2003 64 bits edition ( DoS ), Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bits edition ( DoS ), Microsoft Windows 2008 64 bits edition ( DoS ) and Microsoft Windows Seven 64 bits edition ( DoS ). This module exploits a Windows kernel vulnerability by loading a fake keyboard layout through a call to "NtUserLoadKeyboardLayoutEx" function with crafted parameters. When the keyboard layout is processed by win32k.sys, it produces a kernel heap memory corruption.
IBM Rational ClearQuest RegisterSchemaRepoFromFileByDbSet ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit
IBM Rational ClearQuest ActiveX control Cqole.dll is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by a function prototype mismatch in the RegisterSchemaRepoFromFileByDbSet() function.
Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol DoS (MS12-036)
This modules exploits a kernel vulnerability in Microsoft Remote Desktop server by sending a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to the target system. 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.
VideoSpirit Pro is prone to a buffer overflow when parsing a .VISPRJ project file that contains an overly long "MP3" value. The vulnerability is caused due to a wrong check of the data before it is passed to strcpy(). This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .VISPRJ file. This update adds the CVE number.
CVE-2014-9390: Git is prone to a vulnerability that may allow attackers to overwrite arbitrary local files. This module exploits the condition and installs an Agent when a vulnerable GIT client performs a CLONE to the fake repository created.
The specific flaw exists within the Connect method in webeye.ocx module.The control does not check the length of an attacker-supplied string in the Connect method before copying it into a fixed length buffer on the stack. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser process.
Microsoft MDAC RDS.Dataspace ActiveX Control Exploit
The RDS.Dataspace ActiveX control includes a method that can create an instance of an ActiveX control that exists on the system. The ActiveX objects created in this manner will bypass the ActiveX security model. In particular, the "safe for scripting" and killbit options are ignored. Note that in default configurations of Internet Explorer, the RDS.Dataspace ActiveX control cannot be loaded in the Internet Zone.
The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors in libpurple.dll within the processing of MSNSLP messages. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow without user interaction. 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.
A denial of service vulnerability has been found in the way the multiple overlapping ranges are handled by the Apache HTTPD server. 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.
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the streamprocess.exe service included in the Citrix Provisioning Services application by sending a malformed packet to the 6905/UDP port. This update fixes an issue in the agent connector.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Adobe Acrobat Reader x3d Buffer Overflow Exploit
An specific flaw exists within the application explicitly trusting a string's length embedded within a particular file that is loaded by both tesselate.x3d and 3difr.x3d plugins.
Exim With Dovecot LDA Remote Code Execution Exploit
The Dovecot documentation contains an example using a dangerous configuration option for Exim, which leads to a remote command execution vulnerability.
Linux
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Microsoft Windows Win32k NULL Page Vulnerability Exploit (MS13-081) Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in "win32k.sys" by calling to the "TrackPopupMenuEx" function. This update adds support to Windows 7 64 bits and Windows 2008 R2.
Microsoft Windows Win32k Integer Overflow DoS (MS13-101) Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in win32k.sys by calling to "NtGdiGetTextExtent" function with crafted parameters. This update adds support to Windows 2003 (32 and 64 bits), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bits), Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bits), Windows 7 64 bits, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 8 ( 32 and 64 bits) and Windows 2012.
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V VMBus Non Responsiveness Vulnerability DoS (MS11-047)
This module exploits a vulnerability on Microsoft Hyper-V sending a crafted packet from the "guest OS" to the "host OS" through the vmbus mechanism producing a non responsiveness effect in the all virtual machines running at the time.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Notes 8.5.2 when parsing a malformed, specially crafted AS (Applix Spreadsheet) file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
HP OpenView NNM nnmRptConfig schd_select1 CGI Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the nnmRptConfig.exe CGI application, a component of HP OpenView Network Node Manager, by sending a specially crafted packet.
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management TFTPD Remote DoS
The flaw exists within the novell-tftp.exe component which listens by default on UDP port 69. When handling a request the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the heap.
SIELCO SISTEMI Winlog Malformed Packet Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
Stack-based buffer overflow in Sielco Sistemi Winlog when Run TCP/IP server is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted 0x02 opcode to TCP port 46823.