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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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Adobe Acrobat Pro AFParseDate Javascript API Restrictions Bypass Exploit
Certain Javascript APIs in Adobe Acrobat Pro can only be executed in a privileged context. By adding specially crafted Javascript code to a PDF file it's possible to bypass security restrictions and invoke privileged Javascript APIs, allowing for arbitrary code execution.
Microsoft Internet Explorer CDisplayPointer Use-After-Free Exploit (MS13-080)
Use after free in Internet Explorer when handling a CDisplayPointer object via the use of a "onpropertychange" event handler. Successful control of the freed memory may leverage arbitrary code execution under the context of the user.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player in the flash.Display.Shader class when setting a Pixel Bender Filte as the Shader bytecode.
This vulnerability has been found exploited in-the-wild during April 2014.
CYME ChartFX Client Server ActiveX Control Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to an indexing error in the ShowPropertiesDialog()method inside the ChartFX.ClientServer.Core.dll ActiveX Control. This can be exploited to write a single byte value to an arbitrary memory location via the pageNumber parameter.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader when parsing a .PDF file with a malformed font embedded.
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.
QuickTime Player Streaming Debug Error Logging Buffer Overflow Exploit Update
A stack buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's error logging. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
This update embed the .MOV file in Internet Explorer 6 or 7, in other browsers it can be downloaded for use and exploitation in QuickTime. It also add support for Windows Vista.
Millennium MP3 Studio contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Millennium MP3 Studio when handling .PLS files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .PLS file.
Serenity Audio Player contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in Serenity Audio Player when handling .M3U files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .M3U file.
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.
Alleycode HTML Editor fails when optimizing certain malformed HTML pages,leading to a stack-based buffer overflow that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
Microsoft Windows MPEG2TuneRequest Activex Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the msvidctl.dll ActiveX Control included in Microsoft Windows DirectShow.
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.
OtsTurntables contains a buffer prone to exploitation via an overly long string. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in OtsTurntables when handling .OFL files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .OFL file.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the parsing of playlists (.m3u, .pls, and .asx) containing an overly long file name. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted playlist file.
Opera is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized buffer.
The specific flaw exists within the parsing of CXP files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a buffer.
Rockwell Automation RSLogix Micro Starter Lite Project File Exploit
The specific flaw exists within the parsing of a RSS file. The issue lies in the failure to properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length buffer.
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the DirectShow Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) parser in quartz.dll of Microsoft DirectX.
This module exploits a vulnerability caused due to a boundary error in the Microsoft Agent ActiveX control (agentdpv.dll) when handling specially crafted URLs passed as argument to a certain unspecified method.
This package improves the reliability of the exploit.