SB2020041483 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle WebCenter Portal 

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SB2020041483 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle WebCenter Portal

Published: April 14, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020041483
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17359)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in the ASN.1 parser. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted ASN.1 data and cause an OutOfMemoryError and perform denial of service attack.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16943)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected application.

The vulnerability exists due to a Polymorphic Typing issue when processing JSON requests  within the com.p6spy.engine.spy.P6DataSource component. A remote attacker can send specially crafted JSON data to an RMI service endpoint and execute arbitrary code on he system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that Default Typing is enabled (either globally or for a specific property) for an externally exposed JSON endpoint, the service has has the p6spy (3.8.6) jar in the classpath, and an attacker can find an RMI service endpoint to send requests to.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References