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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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Title
Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Adobe Flash Player Pixel Bender Exploit
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. 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.
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.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Xampp webdav PHP Upload Exploit
This module attacks default XAMPP installations and abuses the use of default credentials for webdav. The module can also be configured to take advantage of user supplied credentials.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Microsoft Windows Mail DLL Hijacking Exploit
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
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Remote Exploit
This module exploits a remote memory corruption on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack by sending a specially crafted sequence of packets to the affected application.
Apple QuickTime _Marshaled_pUnk Backdoor Param Arbitrary Code Execution Exploit
QuickTime has a backdoor in QTPlugin.ocx implemented during development cycle, this can be used by execute arbitrary code under the context of the browser. 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 buffer overflow vulnerability in the mDNSResponder service running on certain versions of Apple Mac OS X. The vulnerability is exploited remotely by sending a specially crafted UPnP Internet Gateway Device (IGD) packet and installing an agent. This update adds port parameter.
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.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Mac OS X CUPS lppasswd Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a format string vulnerability in CUPS lppasswd in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6 that allows local users to get code execution with elevated privileges.
BlazeDVD is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because the application fails to handle malformed playlist files. This version add support for BlazeDVD 6 and Windows 7.
Microsoft Office Excel DBQueryExt Record Parsing Exploit (MS10-038)
This module exploits an arbitrary pointer dereference in Microsoft Office Excel while parsing a specially crafted DBQueryExt record. 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.
HP Storage Data Protector MSG_PROTOCOL Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a remote buffer overflow in the OmniInet.exe service included in the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector application by sending a malformed MSG_PROTOCOL packet.
Microsoft Office Publisher TextBox Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-023)
Buffer overflow in file conversion TextBox processing of Microsoft Office Publisher allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Publisher 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.
Linux Kernel UDEV Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Update
The 'udev' Linux application is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to properly handle netlink messages. Local attackers may exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges, which may lead to a complete compromise of the system. This update fixs a module's bug.
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, allowing local users to gain elevated privileges. This update adds support for Windows 2008.
Wordpress Google Analytics Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Exploit
Input passed to the "s" parameter in index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user in googleanalytics.php. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Exploits/Cross Site Scripting (XSS)/Known Vulnerabilities
Impact
OpenOffice Word sprmTDefTable Integer Overflow Exploit
Integer underflow in filter/ww8/ww8par2.cxx in OpenOffice.org (OOo) before 3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted sprmTDefTable table property modifier in a Word document.
Corrupts the NetBIOS Cache to allow redirection of NetBIOS and DNS names to an arbitrary IP Address. This update fixes a problem when closing the local udp port used by the module, in cases where the execution was stopped manually.
Adobe PDF FlateDecode Argument Buffer Overflow Exploit
This module exploits a heap based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader when handling a specially crafted 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. Since this module is not the final version it may contain bugs or have limited functionality and may not have complete or accurate documentation.
Linux Kernel Sock_Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
The Linux kernel 2.6.0 through 2.6.30.4, and 2.4.4 through 2.4.37.4, does not initialize all function pointers for socket operations in proto_ops structures, which allows local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and gain privileges by using mmap to map page zero, placing arbitrary code on this page, and then invoking an unavailable operation, as demonstrated by the sendpage operation (sock_sendpage function) on a PF_PPPOX socket
This exploit forces the IIS process inetinfo.exe to throw an unhandled exception. IIS' behavior depends on the operating system version, its configuration and the system-wide debugger specified in the registry. This update adds more supported platforms to the exploit.
Microsoft DirectX DirectShow QuickTime Video Exploit
This module exploits a stack corruption in the DirectShow Quicktime Movie parser in quartz.dll of Microsoft DirectX. 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 lack of data sanitization when passed to the "mydirname" parameter in specific modules of XOOP web application. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code to deploy an agent. Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
Solaris
Exploits/Remote
Impact
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.