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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.
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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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Amazon Kindle for PC wintab32 DLL Hijacking Exploit
Amazon Kindle for PC is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of wintab32.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .AZW file.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS clip Attribute Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer when processing a special crafted html with CSS clip attribute.
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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CMarkup Object Use-After-Free Exploit(MS14-021) Update
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to the CMarkup::IsConnectedToPrimaryMarkup function, as exploited in the wild in April 2014.
This update adds support for Internet Explorer 8 and some specific patch versions of Internet Explorer 10
SDP Downloader contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in SDP Downloader when handling crafted .ASX files.
This module exploits a vulnerability in the sasatl.dll control included in the Zenturi ProgramChecker ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the DebugMsgLog() 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.
Microsoft Notepad wab32res.dll COM Server-based Binary Planting Exploit
This module exploits a COM Server-based Binary Planting vulnerability on Microsoft Notepad, different to the already patched CVE-2011-1991.
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.
Adobe Flash Player Drawing Fill Shader Memory Corruption Exploit
This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. The specific flaw exists when a Shader is applied as a drawing fill allowing an attacker to take control of a vulnerable machine and execute arbitrary code.
This vulnerability was found exploited in the wild on June 2015.
The specific flaw exists within the 'factory' object's loadExtensionFactory method. The issue lies in a failure to validate the size of an attacker-supplied input before copying it into a fixed-size buffer on the stack. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
Adobe Flash Player ShaderJob Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.
The specific flaw exists when the "width" attribute of a ShaderJob is modified after starting the job allowing to an attacker to control the size of a destination buffer and the lenght of the copy operation.
Microsoft Excel XLB File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS11-021)
The vulnerability exists within the application's parsing of a particular record within a Microsoft Excel Compound Document. When specifying a particular value, the application will fail to initialize a variable that is used as the length of a memcpy operation.
HP LoadRunner Controller Scenario File Buffer Overflow Exploit
The specific flaw exists within the handling of scenario files (.lrs). By manipulating a scenario file's values, an attacker can cause a fixed-length stack buffer to overflow.
Borland Silk Central TeeChart ActiveX Control AddSeries Untrusted Pointer Exploit
The specific flaw exists within the Borland Silk Central TeeChart ActiveX control. The control suffers from an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability because it blindly calls an attacker-supplied memory address. An attacker can exploit this condition to achieve code execution under the context of the browser process.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CMarkup Object Use-After-Free Exploit(MS14-021)
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to the CMarkup::IsConnectedToPrimaryMarkup function, as exploited in the wild in April 2014.
SCADA Engine BACnet OPC Client is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data, when handling crafted .CSV files.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Lotus Notes 8.5 when parsing a malformed, specially crafted WK3 (SpreadSheet Lotus 1-2-3 Document) file.
QQPlayer contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in QQPlayer when handling .ASX files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .ASX file.
Microsoft Windows LNK Shortcut Automatic File Execution Exploit
Microsoft Windows is prone to a vulnerability that may allow a file to automatically run because the software fails to handle 'LNK' files properly. Specifically, the issue occurs when loading the icon of a shortcut file. A specially crafted 'LNK' file can cause Windows to automatically execute code that is specified by the shortcut file. This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
An integer overflow error exists in the processing of MP4 files. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via e.g. an MP4 file containing a specially crafted "ctts" box.
Microsoft Windows helpctr Invalid URL Processing Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability caused due to an error in the MPC::HTML::UrlUnescapeW() function in helpctr.exe when escaping URLs.
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 Adobe Reader when parsing .PDF files. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in authplay.dll when handling crafted malicious Flash (.SWF) file or by embedding a malicious Flash application in a .PDF file.