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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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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 an arbitrary write without user interaction.
This module updates the MSN library, because of minor changes in the handling of the HTTP encapsulation of the MSN protocol within the Microsoft MSN server.
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.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in MoviePlay when handling .LST files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .LST file.
This module runs a malicious web server on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the WBEMSingleView.ocx control included in the WMI Tools ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
Adobe Flash Player SWF File Uninitialized Memory Exploit
A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an uninitialized memory access triggered by a specially crafted .SWF file, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during March 2011.
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the MSCOMCTL.OCX control by sending a specially crafted .RTF file.
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 Word MSCOMCTL TabStrip Control Use-after-free Exploit(MS12-060) Update
A Memory Corruption in Microsoft Word is caused due to an error within the TabStrip ActiveX control (MSCOMCTL.OCX) object, embedded in a RTF crafted file.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CFlatMarkupPointer Use-After-Free (MS13-059)
Use after free in Internet Explorer when an invalid reference to CFlatMarkupPointer is used. Successful control of the freed memory may leverage arbitrary code execution under the context of the user.
Oracle WebCenter Content is prone to a Remote File Execution vulnerability within the CheckOutAndOpen.dll ActiveX when using openWebdav method. By specifying a constructed path an attacker can force the contents of the file to be passed to ShellExecuteExW, thus being able to execute arbitrary files. The payload is embedded on a VBS file which is automatically executed when a HTA file is requested through Webdav.
Apple Quicktime Invalid Atom Length Buffer Overflow Exploit
Buffer Overflow when Quicktime fails to properly handle the data length for certain atoms such as 'rdrf' or 'dref' in the Alis record by loading a specially crafted .MOV file.
The Import Server component of Oracle WebCenter Capture is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability. This could allow command execution when a user loads a web page which calls the SetAnnotationFont method of the BlackIceDevMode.ocx ActiveX control with a overly long string argument.
AudioCoder contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in AudioCoder when handling .m3u files beginning with http://, when the application tries to obtain a stream from an url. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .m3u file.
Vulnerabilities exist within methods exposed by gwcls1.dll which accept pointer and perform operations on the potentially malicious pointer without validation.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Foxit Reader Plugin npFoxitReaderPlugin that is exposed when loading PDF files from remote hosts with overly long query strings within the URL.
An AccessControlContext attribute in the java.beans.Statement class of Oracle Java can be overwritten by unprivileged applets by using specially crafted Java Beans Expressions and Statements, even when the AccessControlContext attribute is declared as final.
This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user.
This module exploits a Use-After-Free vulnerability in Adobe Reader when handling a specially crafted PDF file.
This module runs a malicious web site on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to the web site.
This update adds Javascript obfuscation to the PDF document and fixes some documentation issues.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Color Management Module via a jpeg image with crafted ICC profile format tags and installs an agent.