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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
Outlook Express NNTP response exploit
This exploit relies in a vulnerability that allows attackers to cause Outlook Express to execute arbitrary code via a malformed NNTP response to the LIST command.
An internal memory buffer may be overrun while handling long "USER" command. This condition may be exploited by attackers to ultimately execute instructions with the privileges of the NetTerm NetFTPD.exe process.
This module sends HTTP requests with specially crafted data making the PHP interpreter to consume lot of resources. This attack prevents the victim server from processing requests from legitimate clients and probably will make the server non-operational. 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.
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.
Input passed via the "from" and "to" POST parameters to converter.php is not properly sanitised before being stored in includes/currencies.php. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code.
Solaris
Exploits/Remote Code Execution
Impact
Advantech Studio ISSymbol ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer overflow in the ISSymbol ActiveX control in ISSymbol.ocx in Advantech Studio allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long String argument in the InternationalOrder method.
Linux Kernel n_tty_write Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The n_tty_write function in drivers/tty/n_tty.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly manage tty driver access in the "LECHO & !OPOST" case, which allows local attackers to escalate privileges triggering a race condition involving read and write operations with long strings. This update adds support for Ubuntu 14.04.
This modules causes a Denial of Service in module ftpsvc.dll contained in Microsoft IIS Server. 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.
Camtasia Studio is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named mfc90enu.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder than a .CMMP file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
SWiSH Max dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit
SWiSH Max is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .SWI file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Google Earth quserex DLL Hijacking Exploit
Google Earth is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of quserex.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .KMZ file.
Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Service Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Service. This vulnerability is currently exploited by the Stuxnet malware. 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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer IESetProtectedModeRegKeyOnly Protected Mode Escape Exploit (MS13-097)
The IESetProtectedModeRegKeyOnly() function in the ieframe.dll library of Microsoft Internet Explorer calls the RegCreateKeyEx registry function when running with Medium Integrity Level over a registry key that is writable by a sandboxed IE instance. This can be abused to overwrite IE's Elevation Policy by creating symbolic links in the Windows Registry in order to escape from the Internet Explorer Protected Mode sandbox.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of PRIVMSG IRC messages. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious IRC server. This update resolves SuspendOtherThread usage.
BS Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling crafted .BSL files.
Foxit Reader Open File Buffer Overflow Exploit Update
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Foxit Reader. If an Open/Execute a file action is defined in the PDF file with an overly long file name argument, when the trigger condition is satisfied it will cause a stack-based buffer overflow, because the application tries to copy the file name argument to a fixed-size buffer in the stack without properly checking that the buffer is large enough to hold the file name string. This update adds support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003.
EViews Enterprise Edition is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named dwmapi.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder than a .PRG file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
MyBB Backdoor Remote Code Execution Exploit
A backdoor introduced in the source code of MyBB allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems running vulnerable installations of MyBB.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
eSignal QUO File Buffer Overflow Exploit
eSignal is prone to a buffer overflow when parsing malformed QUO files.
Adobe Flash Player FLV Nellymoser Decoding Heap Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player when parsing malformed FLV objects. Attackers exploiting the vulnerability can corrupt memory and gain remote code execution.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler server. Citrix NetScaler is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability when handling certain SOAP requests. This update improves exploit reliability.
FreeBSD
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Zimbra Collaboration Server skin Local File Include Exploit
Zimbra is vulnerable to a Local File Inclusion vulnerability that allows attacker to get LDAP credentials which we may use for upload a JSP file allowing us to install an agent.
Microsoft Windows AFD AfdJoinLeaf Privilege Escalation Exploit Update (MS11-080)
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. This update adds support for Windows 2003.