Oracle Hyperion Financial Management TList6 ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tested against: Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 r2 sp2 download url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/epm/downloads/index.html files tested: SystemInstaller-11121-win32.zip FoundationServices-11121-win32-Part1.zip FoundationServices-11121-win32-Part2.zip FoundationServices-11121-win32-Part3.zip FoundationServices-11121-win32-Part4.zip FoundationServices-11121-Part5.zip FoundationServices-11121-Part6.zip FoundationServices-11121-Part7.zip StaticContent-11121.zip RandAFoundation-11121.zip EPM_Architect-11121.zip HyperionFinancialManagement-11121.zip Background: the mentioned program installs an ActiveX control with the following settings: Binary Path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\TList6.ocx ProgID: TList.TList.6 CLSID: {65996200-3B87-11D4-A21F-00E029189826} Safe for Initialization (Registry): True Safe for Scripting (Registry): True This control is marked "safe for scripting" and "safe for initialization", Internet Explorer will allows scripting of this control. Vulnerability: The mentioned class contains the vulnerable SaveData() method, see typelib: ... /* DISPID=167 */ /* VT_I2 [2] */ function SaveData( /* VT_BSTR [8] */ $lpszFileName ) { } ... which allows to create / overwrite files with arbitrary extensions inside arbitrary locations ex. automatic startup folders. By manipulating ex. the Caption property is possible to create a valid application with .hta extension. 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