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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
Microsoft Office COM Object els.dll based Binary Planting Exploit (MS15-132) Update
This module exploits a COM Server-based Binary Planting vulnerability on Microsoft Word to deploy an agent. This version adds wow64 support.
The specific flaw exists within BeginPreRead() processing. When handling malformed 0x7f77 type fields.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Microsoft Group Policy Preferences Exploit (MS14-025)
The Group Policy implementation in Microsoft Windows does not properly handle distribution of passwords, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive credential information and consequently gain privileges by leveraging access to the SYSVOL share.
Iocomp Software ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This module will listen for HTTP requests from vulnerable clients and queue client side exploits as HTTP responses in an attempt to install an OS agent on the client.
Exploits / Client Side
SCADA
Reliance 4 Control Server Denial of Service
Remote Denial Of Service in Reliance 4 Control Server
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
SCADA
QuickHMI Server v3 Antelope Denial of Service
Remote Denial Of Service in QuickHMI Server
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
SCADA
Microsoft Windows NDIS Pool Overflow Vulnerability DoS (MS15-117)
A vulnerability in the Network Driver Interface Standard (NDIS) implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allows local users to trigger buffer overflow. This allows unprivileged local users to cause an invalid dereference in kernel mode, which produces a BSoD.
Jenkins is prone to a remote vulnerability due to deserialization of untrusted inputs, allowing attackers to instantiate arbitrary Java objects leading to remote code execution. This update adds proper CVE number, support for Jenkins with HTTPS enabled, and DNS channel support. It also extends on the supported platforms, improves IPv6 functionality and removes redundant code.
Linux Blueman D-Bus Service EnableNetwork Privilege Escalation Exploit
The EnableNetwork method in the org.blueman.Mechanism D-Bus service of Blueman, a Bluetooth Manager, receives untrusted Python code provided by unprivileged users and evaluates it as root. This can be leveraged by a local unprivileged attacker to gain root privileges.
Microsoft Windows OpenType Font Driver Vulnerability Exploit (MS15-078) Update 3
This module exploits a vulnerability in "atmfd.dll" Windows driver by loading a crafted OTF font. This update adds support to "Low Integrity Level" bypass for "Windows 8.1" 32 bits by using a kernel memory leak (CVE-2015-2433).
Linux Overlayfs ovl_setattr Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in Linux. The ovl_setattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 attempts to merge distinct setattr operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and modify the attributes of arbitrary overlay files via a crafted application.
Linux abrt sosreport Symlink Privilege Escalation Exploit
The sosreport program, a component of the ABRT bug reporting system used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, does not handle symbolic links correctly when writing core dumps of ABRT programs to the ABRT dump directory (/var/tmp/abrt). This can be leveraged by local unprivileged attackers to gain root privileges on vulnerable systems.
This module exploits a Jenkins command injection in order to install an agent.
Linux
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Phoenix Contact Arbitrary file upload clientside
This module will listen for HTTP requests from vulnerable clients and queue client side exploits as HTTP responses in an arbitrary upload file on the client.
Exploits / Client Side
SCADA
Codesys webserver DoS 0-Day
Remote Denial Of Service in Codesys web Server
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
SCADA
MOXA VPort SDK ActiveX Exploit
This module will listen for HTTP requests from vulnerable clients and queue client side exploits as HTTP responses in an attempt to install an OS agent on the client.
Exploits / Client Side
SCADA
VMware vCenter Server Java JMX-RMI Remote Code Execution Exploit
VMware vCenter Server is prone to a remote vulnerability that allows attackers to take advantage of an insecure deployment of the JMX/RMI service used to manage and monitor the Java Virtual Machine. By exploiting known methods, it is possible to remotely load an MLet file from an attacker controlled web server that points at a, also controlled, jar file.
This module exploits a remote code execution vulnerability in Joomla. The session handling code is susceptible to PHP Object Injection attacks due to lack of sanitization in some HTTP headers that are saved to the database session backend.
AlienVault Unified Security Management av-forward Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploit
This update introduces an exploit for AlienVault Unified Security Management. A vulnerability exists in the av-forward daemon running in AlienVault Unified Security Management appliances. The daemon accepts serialized Python and proceeds to deserialize it without proper validation, allowing unauthenticated arbitrary code execution.
The specific flaw exists within the 'factory' object's loadExtensionFactory method. The issue lies in a failure to validate the size of an attacker-supplied input before copying it into a fixed-size buffer on the stack. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process. This version add x86_64 support.
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.