Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2005-267 |
Date Published: | 1 Nov 2009 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 01 November, 2009 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2005-2372 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Oracle Application Server is a multi-platform solution for developing and deploying enterprise applications and web sites. The server ships with several additional components that extend its functionality. One of such component is the Oracle Forms Services. The Forms Services component allows for the execution of Oracle Forms Executable (FMX) files. A Forms executable is executed on the server side. There exists a command execution vulnerability in Oracle Forms Services, a component of Oracle Application Server. The vulnerability is caused due to a flaw that allows for the unrestricted execution of forms from an absolute path. An attacker that is able to upload a Forms executable to the application server is able to run any OS command on the application server. The OS commands will be executed with the privileges of the running application server. The target system will not show any abnormal behaviour after the malicious Forms executable file uploaded to the server without execution. After the malicious Forms executable is executed, the behaviour of the target is dependent on the nature of the embedded system commands. The malicious system commands execute in the security context of the application server process, which is the user "SYSTEM" on Windows systems and the user "oracle" on Unix-like systems. |
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Oracle Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Oracle Application Server Forms arbitrary system command execution