Author Archives: Xavi

Protostar – Format Strings – Level 1

Let’s continue working in ProtoStar exploiting exercises. Let’s see how to solve the Format String level 1. As always, first let’s read the level description. Exercise: This level shows how format strings can be used to modify arbitrary memory locations. … Continue reading

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Protostar – Format Strings – Level 0

Hello everyone! In this blog post I will cover the solution for the Exploiting exercise named ProtoStar that is related to Format String vulnerabilities. Let’s see the first level: Exercise 0: This level introduces format strings, and how attacker supplied … Continue reading

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Introduction to Format Strings Bugs

Format strings are the result of facilities for handling functions with variable arguments in the C programming language. Because it’s really C what makes format strings bugs possible, they affect every OS that has a C compiler. What is a … Continue reading

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CVE-2020-8088 – UseBB Forum 1.0.12 – PHP Type Juggling vulnerability

Hello! Last week I was reading about PHP Type Juggling vulnerabilities and I decided to spend a couple of days learning about them. These vulnerabilities can happen during comparison of PHP variables, because PHP will automatically convert the data into … Continue reading

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Siemens Polarion – CVE-2019-13934, CVE-2019-13935, CVE-2019-13936

Hello, I write this blog post for people that is just starting in web application hacking. I recommend you that you just download some product or web application and start testing it. You are going to realize that sometimes is … Continue reading

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MobaXterm Buffer Overflow – Malicious Sessions File import

Hello! In this blog post I will talk about the exploitation of a vulnerability that I discovered on August of 2019 in MobaXterm application. MobaXterm is a well known remote administration tool, that is used in many companies or in … Continue reading

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SEH based local Buffer Overflow – DameWare Remote Support

Hello everyone! At this blog post I’m going to speak about a vulnerability that I detected at July of 2019 in DameWare Remote Support V. 12.1.0.34. DameWare is a well known remote administration tool that allows user to connect to … Continue reading

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Bypassing Kaspersky AntiVirus 2018

Hello, In this blog post I’m going to show how to do a trick to bypass the Kaspersky 2018 AV. For the example, I’m going to use a netcat 99 binary that Kaspersky is going to detect as the following … Continue reading

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Backdooring a Windows Binary bypassing ASLR memory protection

Hello, Today is a sunny day here in my country and I should be in the beach drinking a cold beer, but I don’t know why… I’m here at home embedding a backdoor inside a Windows binary. I’ve already wrote … Continue reading

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Exploit Development – Vulnserver GTER – Limited Buffer Space – Socket Reuse

Hello everyone! After some weeks I managed to do all the known exercises of Vulnserver, also I did some of them with different methods. I reserved for the last one, the GTER exercise, that is a limited buffer space Buffer … Continue reading

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