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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Description
Date Added
CVE Link
Exploit Platform
Exploit Type
Product Name
Embarcadero ERStudio Data Architect TSVisualization ActiveX loadExtensionFactory Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability lies in the failure to validate the size of the input buffer before copying it into a fixed-size buffer on the stack within the handling of the loadExtensionFactory method.
Adobe Flash Player SWF Buffer Overflow Exploit Update 2
This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player triggered when processing a specially crafted SWF file. This update resolves an issue with how the exploit uses client side cookies.
Microsoft Office Works Converter Exploit (MS09-024)
This module exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Office Works converter that could allow remote code execution via a specially crafted Works file.
This module exploits an arbitrary file download and execute vulnerability in the LaunchObj ActiveX Control included in Symantec AppStream Client. This update fixes an issue in the agent connector.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Time Element Memory Corruption Exploit (MS11-050)
The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that was not properly initialized or is deleted. 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.
FreeFTPd is prone to a buffer overflow when handling an overly long PASS command.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
Microsoft Internet Explorer SetMouseCapture Use-After-Free Exploit Update
This module exploits a use after free in Internet Explorer by using a SetMouseCapture vulnerability in MSHTML. This update fixes a typo in the name of the module. 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 Windows NFS NULL Dereference DoS (MS13-014) Update 2
This modules exploits a Windows kernel vulnerability in "nfssvr.sys" by sending a NFS file renaming crafted request to the target. This update adds support to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and IPv6 attacks.
Microsoft Windows SMB Server Stop Responding DoS (MS11-048)
This module exploits a vulnerability on Microsoft Windows SMB Server via a SMB crafted packet. 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 vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of software utilizing ActFax Server. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing an overly long Print Job command on the Line Printer Daemon Server (LPD-Server) . This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially-crafted argument passed to the affected command.
Windows
Exploits/Remote
Impact
MoviePlay LST Buffer Overflow Exploit
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in MoviePlay when handling .LST files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted .LST file. This module runs a malicious web server on the CORE IMPACT Console and waits for an unsuspecting user to trigger the exploit by connecting to it.
Windows
Exploits/Client Side
Impact
WMI Administrative Tools ActiveX Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability in the WBEMSingleView.ocx control included in the WMI Tools ActiveX application. The exploit is triggered when the OpenURL() method processes a long string argument resulting in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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.
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.
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.
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.