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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
Easy File Sharing Web Server GET Request Exploit
Easy File Sharing is prone to a buffer-overflow when handling a specially crafted GET request.
Advantech WebAccess webvrpcs Service DrawSrv TagGroup Buffer Overflow Exploit
The specific flaw exists within the implementation of the 0x280A IOCTL in the DrawSrv subsystem. A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a call to strcpy. An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of an administrator of the system.
Linux Kernel join_session_keyring Reference Counting Privilege Escalation Exploit
The join_session_keyring() function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel is prone to a reference counter overflow that occurs when a process repeatedly tries to join an already existing keyring.
This vulnerability can be leveraged by local unprivileged attackers to gain root privileges on the affected systems.
Apple Mac OS X DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE Privilege Escalation Exploit
This module exploits a vulnerability present in Mac OS X. dyld in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 does not properly validate pathnames in the environment, which allows local users to gain root privileges via the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE environment variable.
Oracle Application Testing Suite UploadServlet Servlet Remote Code Execution Exploit
A vulnerability exists in the UploadServlet servlet. By providing a filename header containing a directory traversal, an attacker can upload a file to an arbitrary location on the system.
This module abuses the auto deploy feature in the server in order to achieve remote code execution.
Improvement on Web Application Authentication Testing parameters to use a high number of values between the authentication probes.
Exploits / Authentication Weakness
Impact Professional
Oracle Application Testing Suite UploadFileAction Servlet Remote Code Execution Exploit
A vulnerability exists in the UploadFileAction servlet. By providing a fileType parameter of "*" to the UploadFileUpload page, an attacker can upload a file to an arbitrary location on the system.
This module abuses the auto deploy feature in the server in order to achieve remote code execution. Also, this module makes use of an authentication bypass vulnerability to perform the attack.
Adobe Acrobat Reader armsvc Service Privilege Escalation Exploit
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.15 and 11.x before 11.0.12, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 2015.006.30060, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 2015.008.20082 on Windows and OS X allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and perform a transition from Low Integrity to Medium Integrity via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-4446 and CVE-2015-5106.
Spring Boot Default Error Page Expression Language Injection Exploit
Spring Boot Framework 1.2.7 provides a default error page (also known as "Whitelabel Error Page"), that's prone to Spring Expression Language injection when the type of a parameter expected is not expected to be a string but a string is provided. Applications based on Spring Boot that don't deactivate the feature, or customize it in such a way as to stop the injection, are thus susceptible to execution of some Java statements and, in particular, to OS command injections.
Previously, the APC mechanism used to inject the agent in another process was done using an exe file written into the filesystem. This file could potentialy be detected with an AV. For this reason, its execution was changed to be from memory (using Impact's Dynamic Forking mechanism).
Exploits / Remote
Impact Professional
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
QuickHMI Server v3 Antelope Denial of Service
Remote Denial Of Service in QuickHMI Server
Windows
Denial of Service / Remote
SCADA
Reliance 4 Control Server Denial of Service
Remote Denial Of Service in Reliance 4 Control 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.