Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.7.0/11.1.1.9.0/12.2.1.0.0 Security information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.7.0/11.1.1.9.0/12.2.1.0.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Security. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-0614. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.7.0/11.1.1.9.0/12.2.1.0.0 (Reporting Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Security. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle BI Publisher component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, and 12.2.1.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 01/20/2016 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-0614 since 12/09/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 88104 (Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Multiple Vulnerabilities (January 2016 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (88104) and SecurityFocus (BID 81132†). The entries VDB-80389, VDB-80392, VDB-80393 and VDB-80394 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Reporting Software

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• Oracle

Name

• BI Publisher

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• 11.1.1.7.0
• 11.1.1.9.0
• 12.2.1.0.0

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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