Vulnerability Note VU#168795

Oracle 9iAS allows anonymous remote users to view sensitive Apache services by default

Overview

Oracle Application Server 9iAS allows remote users to access several Apache services without authentication.

I. Description

Oracle Application Server 9iAS includes the Apache Web server and several Apache services. In the default install configuration, many of these services, including Dynamic Monitoring Services, can be accessed remotely by anonymous users.

II. Impact

Dynamic Monitoring Services may be used without authentication by attackers to monitor the internal workings of the Oracle server.

III. Solution

The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem.

The following workaround was suggested by David Litchfield and has not been tested by CERT/CC.

Edit the "httpd.conf" file to limit access to the following pages:

http://oracleserver/dms0 http://oracleserver/dms/DMSDump http://oracleserver/servlet/DMSDump http://oracleserver/servlet/Spy http://oracleserver/soap/servlet/Spy http://oracleserver/dms/AggreSpy http://oracleserver/oprocmgr-status http://oracleserver/oprocmgr-service

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Oracle Corporation	Vulnerable	26-Feb-2002

References

http://www.nextgenss.com/papers/hpoas.pdf
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/alerts.htm
http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/4293

Credit

Thanks to David Litchfield for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.

Other Information

Date Public:	2002-01-10
Date First Published:	2002-03-12
Date Last Updated:	2003-04-09
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CAN-2002-0563
NVD-ID(s):	CAN-2002-0563
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	11.25
Document Revision:	13

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