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
Schneider Electric OFS Client Buffer Overflow Exploit When a crafted configuration file is parsed by the client, it may cause a buffer overflow allowing the configuration file execute code on the target PC. CVE-2014-0774 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Dassault Systemes Catia CATV5_Backbone_Bus Buffer Overflow Exploit A stack buffer overflow occurs when copying a user supplied input to a fixed size stack buffer.

The copying procedure stops when a null byte is found and no size check is proceeded. 		NOCVE-9999-62708 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
HP LoadRunner lrFileIOService ActiveX WriteFileString Exploit HP LoadRunner lrFileIOService has a vulnerability in the WriteFileString method, which allow the user to write arbitrary and load abitrary modules. CVE-2013-4798 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
VMware OVF Tool Format String Exploit Format String vulnerability in OVF Tool when parsing crafted OVF files. CVE-2012-3569 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
VCMS Image Arbitrary Upload Exploit A unrestricted file upload vulnerability exists in includes/inline_image_upload.php within AutoSec Tools V-CMS 1.0. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension and then accessing it via a direct request to the file in temp. CVE-2011-4828 Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows Sysret Instruction Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS12-042) On Intel CPUs, sysret to non-canonical addresses causes a fault on the sysret instruction itself after the stack pointer is set to guest value but before the current privilege level (CPL) is changed. Windows is vulnerable due to the way the Windows User Mode Scheduler handles system requests. This module exploits the vulnerability and installs an agent with root privileges.

 CVE-2012-0217 Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
Xion M3U Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Xion when handling .M3U files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .M3U file. NOCVE-9999-44931 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Oracle Java docBase Parameter Buffer Overflow Exploit The Java plugin for Internet Explorer is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow when processing the docBase parameter of a Java applet. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user by enticing the victim to visit a malicious web page.


 CVE-2010-3552 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Office Groove imm DLL Hijacking Exploit Microsoft Office Groove is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of imm.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .GRP file. CVE-2010-3146 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker String Parsing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-050) Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary errors when parsing strings in imported project files (.MSWMM).



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-2010-2564 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Office Outlook Linked Attachment Exploit (MS10-045) Update This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Outlook when verifying attachments that are attached using the ATTACH_BY_REFERENCE value of the PR_ATTACH_METHOD property in a specially crafted e-mail message.

This update uses WebDav.

 CVE-2010-0266 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
File Sharing Wizard HEAD Command Buffer Overflow Exploit File Sharing Wizard is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. CVE-2010-2331 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
HP OpenView NNM OvWebHelp CGI Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in HP OpenView NNM by sending a specially crafted request to OvWebHelp.exe. CVE-2009-4178 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
HP OpenView NNM getnnmdata CGI Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in HP OpenView Network Node Manager by sending a specially crafted request to getnnmdata.exe. CVE-2010-1553 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
PhotoFiltre Studio Buffer Overflow Exploit PhotoFiltre Studio contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in PhotoFiltre when handling .TIF files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .TIF file. CVE-2007-2192 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Codecs Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-026) This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows MPEG Layer-3 codecs when parsing a malformed .AVI file. CVE-2010-0480 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom Record Invalid Index Exploit (MS10-004) Array index error in Microsoft Powerpoint, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PowerPoint document, aka "PowerPoint OEPlaceholderAtom" 'placementId' Invalid Array Indexing Vulnerability.

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.
 CVE-2010-0031 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer TextBytesAtom Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-004) This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 by sending a specially crafted .PPT file with a malformed TextBytesAtom (0xF0A8) 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-2010-0033 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
OracleDB AUTH_SESSKEY Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Update This module exploits a vulnerability in the Oracle Database Server. The vulnerability is triggered when the server processes a long string inside the AUTH_SESSKEY property resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.



This update adds support for Windows 2003 SP2 and Oracle 10.2.0.4. 		CVE-2009-1979 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Net Transport eDonkey Protocol Buffer Overflow Exploit The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing of eDonkey "OP_LOGINREQUEST" packets. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted packet to the ed2k port of an affected system. NOCVE-9999-41933 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Update This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the OmniInet.exe service included in the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector application by sending a malformed MSG_PROTOCOL packet. This update adds support for HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 6.0 and for Windows XP and Vista. CVE-2009-3844 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Quiksoft EasyMail AddAttachment Method ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit QuikSoft EasyMail is prone to a buffer overflow.

The vulnerability affects the 'AddAttachment()' method of the 'emsmtp.dll'.

The issue occurs when the method handles user-input buffer with overly long size. 		CVE-2009-4663 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft Windows MiCreatePagingFileMap DoS (MS09-058) This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows via a specially crafted call to the vulnerable function.



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-2009-2515 Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
VLC Media Player SMB URI Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit VLC Media Player is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability when handling playlist files having an overly long SMB URI.

 CVE-2009-2484 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Wordpress Weak Authentication Exploit An attacker, able to register a specially crafted username on a Wordpress 2.5 installation, will also be able to generate authentication cookies for other chosen accounts. This vulnerability exists because it is possible to modify authentication cookies without invalidating the cryptographic integrity protection. The proper way to exploit this vulnerability is

to use a Wordpress account which its username starts with the word

"admin", for example "admin99". This exploit will not be shown on WebApps reports. 		CVE-2008-1930 Exploits / Authentication Weakness Impact Professional