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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 Message Queuing Denial of Service Vulnerability Exploit Update
This update adds the CVE-2023-21554 to the vulnerabilities exploited by the module. Also Windows Server 2019 was added to supported systems.
This is a critical vulnerability in the MSHTML rendering engine. Microsoft Office applications use the MSHTML engine to process and display web content. An adversary who successfully exploits could achieve full control over a target system by using malicious ActiveX controls to execute arbitrary code.
Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Exploit Update
This is a critical vulnerability in the MSHTML rendering engine. Microsoft Office applications use the MSHTML engine to process and display web content. An adversary who successfully exploits could achieve full control over a target system by using malicious ActiveX controls to execute arbitrary code.
This Update contains the following improvements:
-Default Connection method was changed to HTTPS
-Early Release Warning was removed
-Several "Application Name" in "Supported systems" property were added
Microsoft Notepad deskpan COM Server-based Binary Planting Exploit(MS11-071)
Microsoft Notepad has several safely registered COM servers whose DLLs make unsafe library loading calls. 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 Notepad wab32res.dll COM Server-based Binary Planting Exploit
This module exploits a COM Server-based Binary Planting vulnerability on Microsoft Notepad, different to the already patched CVE-2011-1991. 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.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
Microsoft NtUserMessageCall Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploit (MS08-025)
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to the Windows kernel improperly validating input passed from user mode to the kernel. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run code with elevated privileges.
Microsoft Office Access Database Processing Pointers Exploit (MS13-074)
Microsoft Access contains a vulnerability in the way it handles compiled queries that are stored in .aacdb files. It mistakenly interprets certain fields in the file as pointers and produce memory corruption.
Microsoft Office Assembly Execution Exploit (MS12-005)
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the Windows Packager configuration allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ClickOnce application in a Microsoft Office document. 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 Office Drawing Format Shape Exploit (MS09-062)
This module exploits a memory corruption in Microsoft Office Powerpoint when parsing a .PPT document with a specially crafted msofbtOPT record type. 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 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.
This module exploits an error during processing of FORMAT records when loading Excel files into memory that can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted XLS file containing an out-of-bounds array index.
Microsoft Office Excel Malformed Object Exploit (MS09-009) Update
This module exploits Microsoft Office 2007 systems via a crafted Excel document that triggers an access attempt on an invalid SST record. This update modifies the CVE number related to the module to correctly reflect the specific vulnerability which is being exploited.
Microsoft Office Excel PivotTable Cache Data Record Exploit (MS10-057)
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel by sending a malformed .XLS file with a crafted PivotTable Cache Data 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.
Microsoft Office Excel RTD Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS10-038)
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed RTD (0x813) record, aka "Excel RTD Memory Corruption Vulnerability".
Microsoft Office Excel RTD Data Record Processing Stack Overwrite Exploit (MS11-021)
The flaw exists within the methods used for RealTimeData Record Parsing. When handling a stTopic field has a bit set specifying double byte characters in the following field the value of a global pointer is improperly calculated. 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 Office Excel RTD Data Record Processing Stack Overwrite Exploit (MS11-021) Update
The flaw exists within the methods used for RealTimeData Record Parsing. When handling a stTopic field has a bit set specifying double byte characters in the following field the value of a global pointer is improperly calculated. This version add Windows 7 support.