Title: Oracle Reports Server DESName Remote File Overwrite Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Oracle Reports Server is a reporting application designed to provide access to various reporting formats for selected data sets. It supports a Web interface for ease of access.
Oracle Reports Server is susceptible to an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability in its Web interface.
This issue presents itself when the 'desname' parameter is used. By utilizing unspecified URIs that include the 'desname' parameter, attackers may cause the application to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the Web server.
On the Microsoft Windows platform, attackers may exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with System-level privileges. Attackers may overwrite critical system files, resulting in a system-level failures.
On other platforms, attackers may exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the Oracle Applications Server user. Attackers may overwrite critical Oracle files, resulting in an application-level failure.
Database failure, data destruction, and possibly other attacks are possible.
Affected Products:
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.0
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.1
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.2
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.3
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.4
- Oracle Oracle Reports 10g 9.0.4 .3.3
- Oracle Oracle Reports 6 0.0.0
- Oracle Oracle Reports 9i 0.0.0
- Oracle Oracle Reports6i 6.0.8
- Oracle Oracle Reports6i 6.0.8.19
References:
- Oracle: Oracle File Overwrite Security Vulnerability
- Oracle: Oracle Homepage
- Red-Database-Security GmbH: Overwrite any file via desname in Oracle Reports
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