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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 Office Drawing Format Shape Exploit (MS09-062)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Microsoft Office Powerpoint when parsing a .PPT document with a specially crafted msofbtOPT record type. 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.
FCKeditor is prone to an arbitrary-file-upload vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to upload arbitrary code and execute it in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation; other attacks are also possible. 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.
Symantec System Center Alert Management System Command Execution Exploit
The AMS2 (Alert Management Systems 2) component of multiple Symantec products is prone to a remote command-execution vulnerability because the software fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input.
This module exploits a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Mantis version 1.1.3 caused by Mantis handling the sort parameter in manage_proj_page without the proper validation. This allows for remote code execution on Mantis' Web server.
AT TFTP Server Long Filename Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error during the processing of TFTP Read/Write request packet types. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted packet with an overly long filename field.
BulletProof FTP Client contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in BulletProof FTP Client when handling .BPS files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .BPS file.
DATAC RealWin SCADA Server Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in RealWin SCADA Server. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted packet to port TCP/910.
This module exploits an error during processing of FORMAT records when loading Excel files into memory that can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted XLS file containing an out-of-bounds array index.
Microsoft Office Web Components Exploit (MS08-017)
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the Microsoft Office Web Components. 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the InstallShield Update Service ActiveX control (isusweb.dll) in MacroVision FLEXnet Connect and InstallShield 2008.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition when processing passwords with cgiChkMasterPwd.exe vulnerable module. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to this module.
This module runs a web server waiting for vulnerable clients (Internet Explorer) to connect to it. When the client connects, it will try to install an agent by instancing TLBINF32.DLL (sometimes installed as VSTLBINF.DLL) with a malicious DLL (IMPActiveX.ocx) as parameter. IMPActiveX.ocx has a helpstringdll property pointing to itself, and implements DLLGetDocumentation to install an agent.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the database service (fbserver.exe) of the FireBird SQL application. The exploit triggers a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted packet with a malformed "username" value to port 3050/TCP of the vulnerable system and installs an agent if successful.
WinPcap NPF.SYS IOCTL Handler Privilege Escalation Exploit Windows 2003 Support
This module exploits a vulnerability in WinPcap. The IOCTL 9031 (BIOCGSTATS) handler in the NPF.SYS device driver in WinPcap before 4.0.1 allows local users to overwrite memory and execute arbitrary code via malformed Interrupt Request Packet (Irp) parameters. This update adds support for Windows 2003.
Microsoft Visual Basic VBP File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Visual Basic 6 .vbp files. The vulnerability is caused due to boundary error in VB6.EXE within the processing of VBP archives. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a specially crafted file is opened. Supported systems: - Windows XP Professional - sp2 (i386) Visual Basic Enterprise 6.0
This module exploits a vulnerability in the kwedit.dll control included in the EnjoySAP application. The exploit is triggered when the PrepareToPostHTML() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. 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 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.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Windows handles cursor, animated cursor, and icon formats. An attacker could try to exploit the vulnerability by constructing a malicious cursor or icon file that could potentially allow remote code execution if a user visited a malicious Web site or viewed a specially crafted e-mail message (MS07-017)