SB2022101962 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Siebel Apps - Marketing

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29425)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error within the FileNameUtils.normalize method when processing directory traversal sequences, such as "//../foo", or "\..foo". A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and verify files availability in the parent folder.

2) Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30639)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper error management within the application when handling unexpected connection termination. A remote attacker can drop connection with the Apache Tomcat server, which triggers a non-blocking I/O error and causes all requests, handled by that request object, to fail. As a result, a remote attacker can initiate and drop connections to the server and perform a denial of service attack.

3) XML Entity Expansion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23926)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing XML data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML data to the application and perform XML Entity Expansion attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2022.html?917636