Oracle Application Server Portal 10g access control

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Application Server Portal 10g (Application Server Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Oracle Application Server (OracleAS) Portal 10g allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read the contents of /dav_portal/portal/ by sending a request containing a trailing "%0A" (encoded line feed), then using the session ID that is generated from that request. NOTE: as of 20080512, Oracle has not commented on the accuracy of this report.

The bug was discovered 05/09/2008. The weakness was published 05/12/2008 by Deniz Cevik (Website). The advisory is shared at xforce.iss.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-2138 since 05/12/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 32479 (Oracle Application Server Portal 10g Authentication Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Databases and running in the context r.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42302), Exploit-DB (31770), Tenable (32479), SecurityFocus (BID 29119†) and OSVDB (45172†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 32479
Nessus Name: Oracle Application Server Portal 10g Authentication Bypass
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Deniz Cevik
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2008-2138 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2138
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-42305
X-Force: 42302
SecurityFocus: 29119 - Oracle Application Server Portal Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 30140
OSVDB: 45172 - Oracle - Application Server Portal - Authentication Bypass Issue
SecurityTracker: 1020034
Vulnerability Center: 18323 - Oracle Application Portal Server Remote Authentication Restrictions Bypass, High

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 05:00 PM
Updated: 02/03/2025 01:22 AM
Changes: 03/16/2015 05:00 PM (65), 08/10/2019 06:46 AM (9), 02/03/2025 01:22 AM (27)
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