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Oracle point-of-sale system vulnerabilities get Big Red cross

Patched, Oracle? Speedily

A vulnerability has been unearthed in Oracle MICROS point-of-sale (POS) terminals that allowed hackers to read sensitive data from devices.

The flaw (CVE-2018-2636) was fixed in Oracle's January 2018 patch batch, allowing business app security firm ERPScan to go public with its findings. Left unresolved, the bug would enable an attacker to read any file and receive information about various services from a vulnerable MICROS workstation without authentication, ERPScan warned.

CVE-2018-2636 states for a directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle MICROS EGateway Application Service. In case an insider has access to the vulnerable URL, he or she can pilfer numerous files from the MICROS workstation including services logs and read files like SimphonyInstall.xml or Dbconfix.xml that contain usernames and encrypted passwords to connect to DB, get information about ServiceHost, etc.

So, the attacker can snatch DB usernames and password hashes, brute them and gain full access to the DB with all business data. There are several ways of its exploitation, leading to the whole MICROS system compromise.

Oracle's MICROS technology is used by more than 330,000 cash registers worldwide, including 200,000-plus food and beverage outlets and more than 30,000 hotels in 180 countries. At least 170 MICROS sales terminals are exposed to the internet, ERPScan reported.

Oracle declined to comment on ERPScan's research.

MICROS security has been in the spotlight before. In 2016 hackers attacked the system through its customer support portal. ®

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