Vulnerable software
Oracle Containers for J2EE
Version: 10.1.3.5 and earlier
Link:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/utilsoft-090603.html
Severity level
Severity level: Medium
Impact: CRLF Injection
Access Vector: Remote
CVSS v2:
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
CVE: CVE-2014-0413
Software description
Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) is the core J2EE runtime component of Oracle Application Server.
Vulnerability description
The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a CRLF Injection vulnerability in Oracle Containers for J2EE.
Oracle Containers for J2EE does not properly validate the values from the HTTP headers. An attacker can use a crafted malicious HTTP response and display arbitrary data to the user in the context of the vulnerable application via adding the CRLF characters to the HTTP header value.
How to fix
Update your sofware up to the latest version
Advisory status
16.08.2013 - Vendor gets vulnerability details
15.04.2014 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
25.04.2014 - Public disclosure
Credits
The vulnerability was detected by Mikhail Firstov and Sergey Bobrov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)
References
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/threatscape/pt-2013-48/
Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:
http://www.ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/