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
HP OpenView Performance Agent coda.exe Opcode 0x8C Buffer Overflow Exploit A buffer overflow exists in coda.exe process which listens on a random TCP port by default. The process trusts a value within a GET request as a size then proceeds to copy that many bytes of user-supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the stack. CVE-2012-2020 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
freeSSHd SSH Server Authentication Bypass Remote Code Execution Exploit Update This update modifies the application version displayed in Quick Information CVE-2012-6066 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
Novell Client 2 NICM.SYS Privilege Escalation Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in the NICM.SYS driver shipped with Novell Client 2 when handling specially crafted IOCTL requests. CVE-2013-3956 Windows Exploits/Local Impact
FreeBSD mmap ptrace Privilege Escalation Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD virtual memory system allows files to be memory-mapped. All or parts of a file can be made available to a process via its address space. The process can then access the file using memory operations rather than filesystem I/O calls. Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process (such as a debugger) may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access. CVE-2013-2171 FreeBSD Exploits/Local Impact
MPlayer SAMI Subtitle File Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in MPlayer. A stack-based buffer overflow in the sub_read_line_sami function in MPlayer SVN Versions before 33471 and SMPlayer 0.6.9 and older versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SAMI subtitle file. CVE-2011-3625 Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Serva TFTPD Service Large Read Requests Parsing DoS The Serva32 TFTPD service is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing large read requests. When the application reads in a large buffer the application crashes. CVE-2013-0145 Windows Denial of Service/Remote Impact
Kingsoft Office wpsio Buffer Overflow Exploit In module wpsio, a BSTR string stored in the file is copied to the stack buffer, without checking its length, leading to a stack buffer overflow. CVE-2012-4886 Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
HP Intelligent Management Center mibFileUpload Servlet Remote Exploit This module exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in HP Intelligent Management Center by using the "mibFileUpload" servlet to upload an arbitrary .JSP file. CVE-2012-5201 Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
Sparklabs Viscosity Python Exec Local Privilege Escalation Exploit The setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary insecurely executes certain scripts and can be exploited to gain escalated privileges via symlink attacks. CVE-2012-4284 Mac OS X Exploits/Local Impact
Advantech Studio ISSymbol ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit Update 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. This verions adds suppport for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 and Windows 7. CVE-2011-0340 Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Samba LsarSetInformationPolicy Request Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a heap overflow bug in Samba Server by sending a crafted request packet via DCERPC call. CVE-2012-1182 Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
HP Data Protector Cell Manager Opcode 263 Buffer Overflow Exploit The specific flaw exists within crs.exe which listens by default on a random TCP port. When parsing opcodes 214, 215, 216, 219, 257, and 263, the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length stack buffer. CVE-2013-6195 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
OracleDB TNS Listener Remote Poisoning Vulnerability Exploit Oracle Database Server is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to poison the data handled by the remote 'TNS Listener' component of the application. This module tries to verify if the vulnerability is present in the 'TNS Listener' component of the database server, without deploying an agent. If a database instance name is supplied, it will be used to check for the vulnerability against the TNS listener of the target, but this could affect future client connections, as long as the module is running. CVE-2012-1675 Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
CA Message Queuing Buffer Overflow Exploit This is an exploit for CA's Unicenter Message Queuing buffer overflow vulnerability. CVE-2005-2668 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
MSRPC Netware Client Buffer Overflow exploit This module exploits an unchecked buffer in the Client Service for NetWare on Microsoft Windows, and installs an agent (MS05-046). CVE-2005-1985 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
SMB MS05-027 DoS By sending a specially crafted SMB packet, this exploit performs a Denial of Service attack on the target machine. CVE-2005-1206 Windows Denial of Service/Remote Impact
InduSoft Web Studio CEServer Remote Code Execution Exploit The flaw exists in the Remote Agent (CEServer.exe) that listens by default on TCP port 4322, the process can not perform any authentication and copy the packages designed to a fixed size buffer. CVE-2011-4051 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
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
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. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
HP Data Protector Express Opcode 0x330 Parsing Remote Code Execution Exploit A buffer Overflow exists within the dpwinsdr.exe process which listens on TCP port 3817 by default. The process has insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data copied to a fixed-length buffer on the stack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed opcode 0x330 message packets to the target. CVE-2012-0122 Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
Microsoft Windows Win32k TrackPopupMenu Null Pointer Dereference Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS14-058) This module exploits a null pointer dereference in win32k.sys by abusing of xxxSendMessageTimeout function. The TrackPopupMenu API function is used to trigger the vulnerability. CVE-2014-4113 Windows Exploits/Local Impact
VLC Media Player wintab32 DLL Hijacking Exploit Update VLC Media Player is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of wintab32.dll if this dll is located in the same folder as a .MP3 file. This update adds CVE number and makes exploit compatible with the last WebDav version. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Adobe InDesign CS4 dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit Adobe InDesign CS4 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 .INX file. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
ProFTPD Remote Backdoor Command Execution A backdoor introduced by attackers allows unauthenticated users remote root access to systems which run the maliciously modified version of the ProFTPD daemon. 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. FreeBSD Exploits/Remote Impact
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 dwmapi DLL Hijacking Exploit Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of dwmapi.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .FLA file. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact