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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.
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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Using the VMWare VMCI Arbitrary Code Execution vulnerability it is possible run code in the host machine. This module sends a malformed message through hardware port to host exploiting the vmware-vmx.exe process and installing an agent.
This module exploits a heap overflow vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird; the exploit is triggered when the user opens an attachment with a specially crafted Content-Type headers using the Thunderbird email client.
This module exploits a buffer overflow in the Microsoft Internet Explorer via a Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long fill parameter within a rect tag in a Vector Markup Language (VML) file. This update adds support for Lotus Notes.
The specific flaw exists within the VPORTSDK.VPortSDKCtrl.1 ActiveX control. By passing an overly long string to the GetClientReg method's Name parameter.
The file names showed in WinRAR when opening a ZIP file come from the central directory, but the file names used to extract and open contents come from the Local File Header. This allows to spoof file names when opening ZIP files and can be abused to execute arbitrary code.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Adobe Flash Player SWF Load Crafted Module Exploit Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a SWF file and this load a crafted dll module. 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 exploit.
The default Java security properties configuration did not restrict access to certain com.sun.org.glassfish packages. This flaw allows an unprivileged Java applet to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the privileges of the current user. 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.
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave triggered when processing a specially crafted .DIR file. 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 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.
Nokia PC Suite is prone to a vulnerability that may allow execution of wintab32.dll if this dll is located in the same folder than .VCF file.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Adobe Reader Font Parsing Exploit Update
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader when parsing a .PDF file with a malformed font embedded. This update adds support for several versions of Adobe Reader and corrects the CVE Number of the vulnerability.
Panda Internet Security RKPavProc.sys Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in Panda Internet Security RKPavProc.sys driver when handling a specially crafted IOCTL request. This vulnerability allows unprivileged local users to execute code with SYSTEM privileges.
Windows
Exploits/Local
Impact
HP OpenView NNM OvJavaLocale Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the webappmon.exe CGI application, a component of HP OpenView Network Node Manager, by sending an HTTP request with an invalid value for the OvJavaLocale parameter.
The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache, is a popular open source web server software. mod_isapi is a core module of the Apache package that implements the Internet Server extension API. The extension allows Apache to serve Internet Server extensions (ISAPI .dll modules) for Microsoft Windows based hosts. By sending a specially crafted request followed by a reset packet it is possible to trigger a vulnerability in Apache mod_isapi that will unload the target ISAPI module from memory.
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. 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.
HP OpenView NNM snmpviewer CGI Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the snmpviewer.exe CGI application, a component of HP OpenView Network Node Manager, by sending an HTTP request with an invalid value for the act and app parameters.
Viscom Software Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
A stack-based buffer overflow occurs when you pass to "strFontName" parameter a string overly long than 24 bytes which leads into EIP overwrite allowing the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the logged on user. This happens because an inadequate space is stored into the buffer intended to receive the font name.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of parent windows and can result in a function call using an invalid pointer. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a specially crafted web page and closes opened pop-up windows. 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.
This module exploits a code execution vulnerability in the Veritas Web Server service by sending a specially crafted authentication request to the 14300/TCP port.
This module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Sun Web Server Webdav service when parsing OPTION requests. 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.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling some commands. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long command string, passed to the affected server.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Orbital Viewer .ORB Buffer Overflow Exploit
Orbital Viewer is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Event Handling Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error when handling events when the object firing the event is removed from the markup. 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.