Advisory Details

January 22nd, 2016

Oracle GoldenGate Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-0450
CVSS SCORE	5.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Oracle
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	GoldenGate
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to cause a denial condition on vulnerable installations of Oracle GoldenGate. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the GoldenGate mgr process, which listens on TCP port 7809. By default, this process does not require authentication before accepting data delivery and GGSCI commands from a remote machine. This allows for a remote attacker to disable the service or exhaust resources on the target machine.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Oracle has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-07-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-01-22 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Mike Arnold (Bruk0ut)

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