Advisory: Oracle Forms Builder Password in Temp Files
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Oracle Forms Builder Password in Temp Files
Name Oracle Forms Builder Password in Temp Files
Systems Affected Oracle Formsbuilder 9.0.4
Severity Low Risk
Category Information disclosure of passwords
Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com
Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date 13 July 2005 (V 1.00)
Advisory AKSEC2003-006
Oracle Vuln# AS06
Time to fix 148 days
Details
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Oracle Formsbuilder 9.0.4 creates temp files (e.g. s5hs.1htm) in the local
temp (%TEMP%) directory. These temp-files contain the username and password
of the current database connection entered in the Formsbuilder. After closing
Formsbuilder these files are not deleted.
This security issued was introduced in Formsbuilder 9.0.4 to avoid another
security issue in older versions of Formsbuilder (cleartext passwords in the
Apache log file).
Example
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<html> <head> ORACLE FORMS.</head>
<body onload="document.pform.submit();" >
<form name="pform" action="http://localhost:8889/forms90/f90servlet";
method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="form"
value="C:\oracle_security\sql_injection_forms\demo1.fmx">
<input type="hidden" name="userid" value="SCOTT/TIGER@ora10103">
<input type="hidden" name="obr" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="array" value="YES">
</form> </body></html>
Workaround
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Set the environment variable TMP, TEMP and TMPDIR to a secure location and
delete the temp directory on a regular basis.
Patch Information
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Apply patches for Jdeveloper and / or DeveloperSuite mentioned in Metalink
Note 311038 on your Jdeveloper / DeveloperSuite Installation (normally your
client PC).
History
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14-feb-2005 Oracle secalert_us was informed
14-feb-2005 Bug confirmed
12-jul-2005 Oracle published Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2005
12-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory
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