Core Certified Exploits

Library of expert validated exploits for safe and effective pen tests

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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Title Description Date Added CVE Link Exploit Platform Exploit Type Product Name
Telnetd encrypt_keyid Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Update A buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in Inetutils and Heimdal implementations of telnetd allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root permissions via a long encryption key.



This update adds support for Debian and newer FreeBSD platforms. 		CVE-2011-4862 FreeBSD, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Telnetd encrypt_keyid Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Update A buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in Inetutils and Heimdal implementations of telnetd allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root permissions via a long encryption key. This update adds support for Debian and newer FreeBSD platforms. CVE-2011-4862 FreeBSD Exploits/Remote Impact
Citrix Provisioning Services Streamprocess Opcode 0x40020000 Buffer Overflow Exploit 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. NOCVE-9999-50874 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Novell ZENworks Asset Management Path Traversal Exploit This module exploits a path traversal vulnerability in Novell ZENworks Asset Management.



The flaw exists within the rtrlet component. This process listens on TCP port 8080. When handling an unauthenticated file upload the process does not properly sanitize the path. Directory traversal can be used to drop a file in an arbitrary location and a null byte inserted into the filename to provide arbitrary extension. 		CVE-2011-2653 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability DoS (MS11-087) Update This update adds support to Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 2008 and Microsoft Windows 7.



When a crafted TTF file is processed by Windows kernel it produces a stack exhaustion finishing it in a BSoD. 		CVE-2011-3402 Windows Denial of Service / Local Impact Professional
Safari File Policy Exploit A policy issue existed in Apple Safari before 5.1 when handling of file:// URLs. CVE-2011-3230 Mac OS X Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
CyberLink Power2Go dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit Update CyberLink Power2Go 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 .P2G file. NOCVE-9999-46014 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
DameWare Mini Remote Control Username Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in DameWare Mini Remote Control by sending a specially crafted packet to port 6129/TCP. CVE-2005-2842 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability Clientside DoS (MS11-087) When a crafted TTF file is processed by Windows kernel it produces a stack exhaustion finishing it in a BSoD.



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. 		CVE-2011-3402 Windows Denial of Service / Client Side Impact Professional
Telnetd encrypt_keyid Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Buffer overflow in libtelnet/encrypt.c in various implementations of telnetd allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root permissions via a long encryption key.



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. 		CVE-2011-4862 FreeBSD, Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
CoDeSys SCADA Webserver Buffer Overflow Exploit webserver.exe is a component in 3S CoDeSys for handling the HTTP connections on port 8080.

The process is affected by a buffer overflow that copies the input URI in a limited buffer allowing code execution. 		NOCVE-9999-50546 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability DoS (MS11-087) When a crafted TTF file is processed by Windows kernel it produces a stack exhaustion finishing it in a BSoD.



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. 		CVE-2011-3402 Windows Denial of Service / Local Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows Font Library File Buffer Overrun Vulnerability Exploit (MS11-077) Update This update adds support to Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 2008.



When a crafted ".fon" file is loaded by Windows Kernel this produces a kernel heap overflow.

This module exploits this vulnerability by filling the kernel memory via heap spraying and building a fake chunk header. 		CVE-2011-2003 Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
TinyIdentD Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is a buffer overflow in TinyIdentD via a long string to TCP port 113. CVE-2007-2711 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Phpldapadmin orderby Remote Code Execution Exploit 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. CVE-2011-4075 Linux, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Flash XSS Analyzer Log update This Update modifies the way log is shown while running Flash XSS Analizer module, to clearly reflect the target with its result Exploits Impact Professional
Image Viewer CP Gold Image2PDF ActiveX Exploit The vulnerability exists on ImageViewer2.OCX by passing a overly long argument to an insecure Image2PDF() method. NOCVE-9999-50359 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Image Viewer CP Gold TifMergeMultiFiles ActiveX Exploit The vulnerability exists on ImageViewer2.OCX by passing a overly long argument to an insecure TifMergeMultiFiles() method. NOCVE-9999-50354 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Novell iPrint Client nipplib GetDriverSettings Buffer Overflow Exploit The flaw exists within the nipplib.dll component. When handling the exposed method GetDriverSettings the application assembles a string for logging consisting of the hostname/port provided as a parameter. When building this message the process will blindly copy user supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the stack. CVE-2011-3173 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
PhpMyAdmin Unserialize Remote Code Execution Exploit Update phpMyAdmin is vulnerable to a remote code execution due the use of the unserialize method on user supplied data. This data is written in the config file and is accessible from the internet by default.



This update adds support for Solaris and Mac OS X.

 CVE-2009-4605 Windows, Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Excel Lel Biff Record Memory Corruption (MS11-096) The vulnerability is due to an memory corruption when the vulnerable software handles a crafted Excel file with a corrupted LEL 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. 		CVE-2011-3403 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
e107 Install Script Command Injection Exploit Update This update appends support for solaris and Mac OS X. CVE-2011-1513 Windows, Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Promotic SCADA MFC90ENU DLL Hijacking Exploit Promotic SCADA is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of mfc71enu if this dll is located in the same folder than .PRA file. NOCVE-9999-50261 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
VMware_vmwarbase_DLL_ISO_File_Buffer_Overflow_Exploit VMware Workstation and VMware Player are prone to a stack overflow when parsing a specially crafted ISO file. CVE-2011-3868 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Zabbix Remote Code Execution Exploit Update This module adds support for Mac OS X and Solaris platforms. NOCVE-9999-37058 Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional