SecurityForest.com ExploitTree

This afternoon I was researching a bot for a chapter in my latest book. I don't spend a lot of time on exploit sites because I am not a penetration tester by trade. I think the last time I really looked at exploits, sites like www.hack.co.za were still around!

While searching for the bot in question, I happened to find SecurityForest.com, although the site was announced on BugTraq in March. SecurityForest.com is an impressive piece of work. The site is essentially a giant CVS archive of attack code, called the ExploitTree. They provide a Client Utility, which at least for UNIX, is an interface to a native CVS client. For Windows, they provide everything you need to access a CVS server.

Here is how a session using the ExploitTree Client Utility appears under UNIX.


 ./ExploitTree.pl anonymous

ExploitTree Client Utility Manager v0.6
----------------------------------------

1) Initialize (first time download)
2) Update Repository
3) Print Exploit Statistics
q) Quit

> 1
Password is blank (press enter), then wait...

Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.securityforest.com:2401/home/security/cvsroot
CVS password:
cvs login: warning: failed to open /home/richard/.cvspass for reading:
 No such file or directory
cvs server: Updating ExploitTree
U ExploitTree/_SecurityForest
U ExploitTree/_Ver
U ExploitTree/bids.txt
U ExploitTree/exploit_db.txt
U ExploitTree/xsearch.pl
U ExploitTree/xsearch2-beta.pl
cvs server: Updating ExploitTree/application
U ExploitTree/application/_SecurityForest
cvs server: Updating ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized
U ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized/0verkill-exploit.c
U ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized/0x82-GNATS_sux.c
U ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized/0x82-Remote.tannehehe.xpl.c
U ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized/0x82-libCGIfpxpl.c
U ExploitTree/application/_uncategorized/101_shixx.cpp
...edited...
U ExploitTree/system/tru64/TRU64_xkb.pl
U ExploitTree/system/tru64/_SecurityForest
Quiting...

Here's an example of what one finds when the download process is finished.

janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree$ ls
CVS                     bids.txt                xsearch.pl
_SecurityForest         exploit_db.txt          xsearch2-beta.pl
_Ver                    network
application             system
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree$ cd system/
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system$ ls
CVS             atheos          irix            novell          tru64
_SecurityForest beos            linux           qnx
_uncategorized  bsd             mac_osx         sco
aix             hpux            microsoft       solaris
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system$ cd bsd
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system/bsd$ ls
CVS             _SecurityForest local           remote
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system/bsd$ cd remote/
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system/bsd/remote$ ls
CVS             animal.c        freebsd         obooptd.c       rpc.autofsd.c
_SecurityForest bsdi            netbuf.c        openbsd         stream3.c
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system/bsd/remote$ cd freebsd/
janney:/home/richard/exploittree/ExploitTree/system/bsd/remote/freebsd$ ls
CVS                     fbsd-DoS.c              ronin.c
DSR-cfengine.pl         fbsd-bnc.c              turkey2.c
_SecurityForest         ftpspy.c
cURL-remote-FBSD.pl     ppp.c

I chose a sparsely populated set of directories. The Microsoft section is much longer.

What's nice about this set-up is that you can synchronize your local copy of the ExploitTree with the SecurityForest.com version using CVS.

Other helpful exploit sites include milw0rm.com and ExploitWatch, which reports on newly available exploits by linking to them.

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