Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in WebLogic Portal, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
BEA WebLogic Portal User-Entitlement Security Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16538
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16538/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/5149/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in WebLogic Portal, which can be
exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security
restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in enforcing user
entitlements and can be exploited via specially crafted URLs to
access pages that the user is not entitled to.
Successful exploitation requires that the entitlements are placed
directly on desktop books, pages, or portlets.
The vulnerability has been reported in WebLogic Portal 8.1 through
Service Pack 4 (all platforms).
SOLUTION:
Apply patch (requires Service Pack 4):
ftp://ftpna.beasys.com/pub/releases/security/patch_CR238578_81SP4.zip
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
BEA Systems:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/137
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