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

Vulnerability Note VU#168795

Original Release Date: 2002-03-12 | Last Revised: 2003-04-09

Overview

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

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.

Impact

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

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/dms0http://oracleserver/dms/DMSDumphttp://oracleserver/servlet/DMSDumphttp://oracleserver/servlet/Spyhttp://oracleserver/soap/servlet/Spyhttp://oracleserver/dms/AggreSpyhttp://oracleserver/oprocmgr-statushttp://oracleserver/oprocmgr-service

Vendor Information

168795
 

Oracle Corporation Affected

Notified:  February 08, 2002 Updated: February 26, 2002

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

"The info is correct: please link to Alert #28 at http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/alerts.htm."

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.


CVSS Metrics

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Base N/A N/A
Temporal N/A N/A
Environmental N/A

References

Acknowledgements

Thanks to David Litchfield for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2002-0563
Severity Metric: 11.25
Date Public: 2002-01-10
Date First Published: 2002-03-12
Date Last Updated: 2003-04-09 19:19 UTC
Document Revision: 13

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