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
IBM solidDB Packet Processing DoS IBM solidDB does not properly perform a recursive call to a certain function upon receiving packet data containing a single integer field, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a TCP session. Windows Denial of Service/Remote Impact
Hyleos ChemView ActiveX Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in the HyleosChemView.ocx control included in the Hyleos ChemView ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Impersonation Exploit (MS10-061) Update 2 This update adds support to Microsoft Windows 2003, Vista, 2008 and Seven. This module exploits a vulnerability in the "Print Spooler" service. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
Zend Server Java Bridge Design Flaw Remote Code Execution Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in Java Bridge component of Zend Server. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
VLC Media Player AMV File Memory Corruption Exploit A code execution vulnerability exists in the way that VLC handles specially crafted .AMV files. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
HP OpenView NNM ovas Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ovas service, part of the HP OpenView Network Node Manager application. The exploit triggers a stack-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted POST request with a malformed Destination Node variable to the vulnerable system and installs an agent if successful. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
PAM Motd Privilege Escalation Exploit Update The PAM MOTD module in Ubuntu does not correctly handle path permissions when creating user file stamps. A local attacker can exploit this to gain root privileges. This update improves the reliability of the exploit. Linux Exploits/Local Impact
Apache Range Header DoS Update A denial of service vulnerability has been found in the way the multiple overlapping ranges are handled by the Apache HTTPD server. This update fixes an issue when launching the module from an agent running in a Linux system. AIX Denial of Service/Remote Impact
HP OpenView Performance Agent coda.exe Opcode 0x8C Buffer Overflow Exploit A buffer overflow exists in coda.exe process which listens on a random TCP port by default. The process trusts a value within a GET request as a size then proceeds to copy that many bytes of user-supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the stack. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
freeSSHd SSH Server Authentication Bypass Remote Code Execution Exploit Update This update modifies the application version displayed in Quick Information Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
Novell Client 2 NICM.SYS Privilege Escalation Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in the NICM.SYS driver shipped with Novell Client 2 when handling specially crafted IOCTL requests. Windows Exploits/Local Impact
FreeBSD mmap ptrace Privilege Escalation Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD virtual memory system allows files to be memory-mapped. All or parts of a file can be made available to a process via its address space. The process can then access the file using memory operations rather than filesystem I/O calls. Due to insufficient permission checks in the virtual memory system, a tracing process (such as a debugger) may be able to modify portions of the traced process's address space to which the traced process itself does not have write access. FreeBSD Exploits/Local Impact
MPlayer SAMI Subtitle File Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a vulnerability in MPlayer. A stack-based buffer overflow in the sub_read_line_sami function in MPlayer SVN Versions before 33471 and SMPlayer 0.6.9 and older versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SAMI subtitle file. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Serva TFTPD Service Large Read Requests Parsing DoS The Serva32 TFTPD service is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing large read requests. When the application reads in a large buffer the application crashes. Windows Denial of Service/Remote Impact
Kingsoft Office wpsio Buffer Overflow Exploit In module wpsio, a BSTR string stored in the file is copied to the stack buffer, without checking its length, leading to a stack buffer overflow. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
HP Intelligent Management Center mibFileUpload Servlet Remote Exploit This module exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in HP Intelligent Management Center by using the "mibFileUpload" servlet to upload an arbitrary .JSP file. Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
Sparklabs Viscosity Python Exec Local Privilege Escalation Exploit The setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary insecurely executes certain scripts and can be exploited to gain escalated privileges via symlink attacks. Mac OS X Exploits/Local Impact
Advantech Studio ISSymbol ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Exploit Update Buffer overflow in the ISSymbol ActiveX control in ISSymbol.ocx in Advantech Studio allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long String argument in the InternationalOrder method. This verions adds suppport for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 and Windows 7. Windows Exploits/Client Side Impact
Samba LsarSetInformationPolicy Request Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit This module exploits a heap overflow bug in Samba Server by sending a crafted request packet via DCERPC call. Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
HP Data Protector Cell Manager Opcode 263 Buffer Overflow Exploit The specific flaw exists within crs.exe which listens by default on a random TCP port. When parsing opcodes 214, 215, 216, 219, 257, and 263, the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length stack buffer. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
OracleDB TNS Listener Remote Poisoning Vulnerability Exploit Oracle Database Server is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to poison the data handled by the remote 'TNS Listener' component of the application. This module tries to verify if the vulnerability is present in the 'TNS Listener' component of the database server, without deploying an agent. If a database instance name is supplied, it will be used to check for the vulnerability against the TNS listener of the target, but this could affect future client connections, as long as the module is running. Linux Exploits/Remote Impact
CA Message Queuing Buffer Overflow Exploit This is an exploit for CA's Unicenter Message Queuing buffer overflow vulnerability. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
MSRPC Netware Client Buffer Overflow exploit This module exploits an unchecked buffer in the Client Service for NetWare on Microsoft Windows, and installs an agent (MS05-046). Windows Exploits/Remote Impact
SMB MS05-027 DoS By sending a specially crafted SMB packet, this exploit performs a Denial of Service attack on the target machine. Windows Denial of Service/Remote Impact
InduSoft Web Studio CEServer Remote Code Execution Exploit The flaw exists in the Remote Agent (CEServer.exe) that listens by default on TCP port 4322, the process can not perform any authentication and copy the packages designed to a fixed size buffer. Windows Exploits/Remote Impact