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
IIS ASP Server-Side Include exploit update This update improves the reliability of the 'ISS ASP Server-Side Include

exploit'. The module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the

SSINC.DLL file used by Microsoft IIS 5.0. The exploit is triggered by

including long enough filenames in any ASP file.



 CVE-2002-0149 Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
SugarCRM REST Unserialize PHP Exploit This module exploits an unauthenticated PHP Injection vulnerability abusing the unserialize() function. NOCVE-9999-79965 Linux Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact Professional
Eaton ELCSoft ELCSimulator Buffer Overflow Exploit The specific flaw exists within the processing of network TCP requests by ELCSimulator.exe. A crafted request will cause a stack buffer overflow. CVE-2016-4512 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Solarwinds Virtualization Manager Java JMX-RMI Remote Code Execution Exploit The RMI service in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library. CVE-2016-3642 Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
IE XML HTTP Exploit update This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services. This update improves the stability of the exploit. CVE-2006-5745 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Protector EXEC_BAR User Name Buffer Overflow Exploit The specific flaw exists within OmniInet.exe which listens by default on TCP port 5555. When parsing a malformed user name field in a request, the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length stack buffer. A remote attacker can abuse this to execute remote code under the context of SYSTEM. CVE-2016-2005 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Reprise License Manager activate_doit Command actserver Parameter Buffer Overflow Exploit Update 2 The specific flaw exists within the activate_doit function of the service. The issue lies in the handling of the server parameter which can result in overflowing a stack-based buffer.

This update introduces more accurate information about vulnerable targets. 		CVE-2015-6946 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Microsoft Exchange Validation Key Remote OS Command Injection Exploit Update Improvements .NET deserialization vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange Control Panel web page allows authenticated attackers to execute OS commands with SYSTEM privileges.

The lack of randomization in the validationKey and decryptionKey values at installation allows an attacker to create a crafted viewstate to execute OS commands via .NET deserialization. 		Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Object Memory Corruption Exploit (MS10-002) This module exploits a use-after-free vulnerability in the MSHTML component in Internet Explorer. The specific error ocurrs due to the way Internet Explorer handles objects in memory. It is possible to use a pointer in CTableRowCellsCollectionCacheItem::GetNext after it gets freed and get remote code execution.



This vulnerability was one of the 2012's Pwn2Own challenges. 		CVE-2010-0248 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Adobe Photoshop Collada Asset Elements Buffer Overflow Exploit Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 is prone to a unicode overflow which occurs when overlong asset elements are processed. NOCVE-9999-52489 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
CyberLink Power2Go P2G Name Attribute Buffer Overflow Exploit A stack-based buffer overflow in CyberLink Power2Go allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via an overly long name attribute in a .P2G file. NOCVE-9999-52040 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
McAfee Virtual Technician MVTControl ActiveX Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in McAfee Virtual Technician MVTControl, which can be abused by using the GetObject() function to load unsafe classes, therefore allowing remote code execution under the context of the user. NOCVE-9999-52287 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft SharePoint Server WikiContentWebpart Web Part Remote OS Command Injection Exploit (CVE-2020-1181) A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint Server when it fails to properly identify and filter unsafe ASP.Net web controls, aka 'Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. CVE-2020-1181 Windows Exploits / OS Command Injection / Known Vulnerabilities Impact
GHOST glibc gethostbyname Buffer Overflow Verifier This update includes a module that executes a program designed to test a buffer overflow in glibc's __nss_hostname_digits_dots function. The function is used by the gethostbyname*() functions family used for name resolution. Under some circumstances, the use of those functions when the vulnerable underlying function is present, may lead to remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. CVE-2015-0235 Linux Exploits / Tools Impact Professional
Corel Painter Wacommt DLL Hijacking Exploit Untrusted search path vulnerability in Corel Painter 2015 14.0.0.728 and earlier, and possibly other versions allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wacommt.dll that is located in the same folder as an .rif file. CVE-2014-8395 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Advantech ADAMView GNI File Buffer Overflow Exploit ADAMView is prone to a buffer overflow when handling specially crafted GNI files CVE-2014-8386 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
MediaWiki Thumb.php Remote Command Execution Exploit MediaWiki with DjVU or PDF file upload allows a remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by exploting a bug in the with parameter in thumb.php while previewing the uploaded file. CVE-2014-1610 Linux Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
Jetty Directory Listing Cross Site Scripting Exploit A Cross-Site scripting vulnerability has been reported in Jetty. This vulnerability can be induced whenever Jetty displays a web directory listing. Client-side script code can be included in the HTTP response by appending it next to directory listing's path, preceded by a ';' character. CVE-2009-1524 Exploits / Known Vulnerabilities Impact Professional
IIS FTP NLST Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a buffer overflow in the FTP server in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) via a crafted NLST command that uses wildcards.



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-2009-3023 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
TinyWebGallery Remote Code Execution Exploit This module exploits a TinyWebGallery local file-include vulnerability because TinyWebGallery fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. The module takes advantage of the logging capabilities of the attacked software to remotely execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-1911 Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux Exploits / Remote Code Execution Impact Professional
Awingsoft Awakening Remote Command Execution Exploit Awingsoft Awakening (aka Winds3D) Viewer, which runs as a plugin within most popular web browsers, is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable arbitrary command execution vulnerability which can be triggered by making the user visit a malicious link/website. CVE-2009-2386 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
Microsoft IIS MS08-006 Exploit update 3 This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability present in Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 5.1 through 6.0.



This update makes the name of the file used random to improve reliability, as well as avoid a system error when the file is used. It also adds the possibility of deploying multiple agents. 		CVE-2008-0075 Windows Exploits / Local Impact Professional
Pointdev IDEAL Administration IPJ Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in Pointdev IDEAL Administration, when importing a project file, may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a crafted IPJ document that is opened by a local user to execute code on the system with the privileges of the user running Pointdev IDEAL Administration. This can be exploited to cause a stack based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is imported. NOCVE-9999-48212 Windows Exploits / Client Side Impact Professional
HP OpenView NNM nnmRptConfig schd_select1 CGI Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the nnmRptConfig.exe CGI application, a component of HP OpenView Network Node Manager, by sending a specially crafted packet. CVE-2011-0269 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional
SIELCO SISTEMI Winlog Malformed Packet Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit Stack-based buffer overflow in Sielco Sistemi Winlog when Run TCP/IP server is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted 0x02 opcode to TCP port 46823. CVE-2011-0517 Windows Exploits / Remote Impact Professional