Oracle E-Business Suite Business Intelligence SQL Injection Vulnerability

December 16th, 2008

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary SQL on vulnerable installations of Oracle E-Business Suite Business Intelligence. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the APPS.ICXSUPWF.DisplayContacts package. The procedure fails to validate the contents of a WHERE clause containing user supplied input. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements in the context of the APPS user.

Additional Details

Oracle has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuapr2007.html

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2007-01-29 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2008-12-16 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Joxean Koret

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