Check Point Advisories

Oracle Secure Backup Administration Server Authentication Bypass (CVE-2009-1977)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-169
Date Published: 27 Aug 2009
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 27 August, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-1977
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Oracle Secure Backup is a backup solution allowing for single point of management of data present on network attached storage (NAS) devices and distributed hosts. An authentication bypass vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Secure Backup server. The vulnerability is due to a flaw in the logic used to authenticate a user to the Oracle Secure Backup administration server. The script 'common.php' does not properly sanitize the user name variable before using it in a database query. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted user name variable to the affected server. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malformed requests sent to the vulnerable server.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Oracle Secure Backup Administration Server Authentication Bypass protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Oracle Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  Oracle Secure Backup administration server authentication bypass

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