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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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Microsoft Windows MS-DOS Device Name Privilege Escalation Exploit(MS15-038)
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows kernel does not properly constrain impersonation levels. The vulnerability occurs because a user can place symlinks for the system drives in the per-login session device map and the kernel will follow them during impersonation. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability may, for example, redirect a call to LoadLibrary, from a system service (when impersonating), to an arbitrary location.
Microsoft Windows MRXDAV.SYS WebDav Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS16-016)
This module exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows MRXDAV.SYS driver. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges in a vulnerable target.
Microsoft Windows MQAC.sys Arbitrary Write Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The MQ Access Control Driver (mqac.sys) present in Microsoft Windows is vulnerable to an arbitrary pointer overwrite. This module allows a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges by sending a specially crafted IOCTL (0x1965020F) to the vulnerable driver.
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.
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.
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker DLL Hijacking (MS10-093)
Windows Movie Maker is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named rsaenh.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as a .MSWMM file.
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.
Microsoft Windows Meeting Space DLL Hijacking Exploit (MS11-085)
Windows Meeting Space is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of any library file named wab32res.dll, if this dll is located in the same folder as a .WCINV file.
Microsoft Windows Media Services Remote Exploit (MS10-025) Update
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Media Services by sending a specially crafted packet to the 1755/TCP port. This module also works against targets with the original MS10-025 update installed.
Microsoft Windows Media Services Remote Exploit (MS10-025)
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the Microsoft Windows Media Services by sending a specially crafted packet to the port 1755/TCP. 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.
Microsoft Windows Media Player MIDI Heap Overflow Exploit (MS12-004)
This module exploits a heap overflow in Windows Media Player (winmm.dll) when handling a specially crafted .MID 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.
Microsoft Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-015) Update
This module exploits a memory corruption in Windows Media Player when parsing a malformed DVR-MS file. This update fixes an issue in the agent connector.
Microsoft Windows Media Player DVR-MS Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-015)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Windows Media Player when parsing a malformed DVR-MS 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.
Microsoft Windows Media Player ASF Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS09-052)
Windows Media Player is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability that occurs because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data via a crafted .ASF file.
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder DLL Hijacking (MS10-094)
Windows Media Encoder is prone to a vulnerability that may allow the execution of an attacker supplied file named wmerrorENU.dll, if this dll is located in the same webdav/shared folder as a .PRX file.
Microsoft Windows Media Center MCL URL File Disclosure Exploit (MS15-134)
Windows Media Center MCL files can specify a URL to be automatically loaded within Media Center. A specially crafted MCL file can trick Windows Media Center into rendering the very same MCL file as a local HTML file within the application's embedded web browser. This can be leveraged by an attacker to read and exfiltrate arbitrary files from a victim's local fileystem by convincing an unsuspecting user to open an MCL file.
Microsoft Windows Media Center .MCL File Processing Remote Code Execution (MS16-059)
Microsoft Windows Media Center (all versions prior to May 11th, 2016) contains a remote code execution upon processing specially crafted .MCL files. The vulnerability exists because Windows Media Center does not correctly processes paths in the "Run" parameter of the "Application" tag, bypassing the usual security warning displayed upon trying to run programs residing on remote (WebDAV/SMB) shares.
Microsoft Windows Mail is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of wab32res.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .NWS file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Microsoft Windows LUAFV PostLuafvPostReadWrite SECTION_OBJECT_POINTERS Race Condition Privilege Escalation
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to the LUAFV driver (luafv.sys). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context of the local system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Microsoft Windows LUAFV Delayed Virtualization MAXIMUM_ACCESS DesiredAccess Vulnerability Exploit
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles calls to the LUAFV driver (luafv.sys). An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the security context of the local system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Microsoft Windows LSASS Memory Corruption DoS (MS17-004)
This module exploits an exceptional condition in "lsasrv.dll" by sending a crafted "Session Setup Request" SMBv1 or SMBv2 packet that is affected during the NTML Auth message.