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Oracle JDeveloper passes Plaintext Password

Name	Oracle JDeveloper passes Plaintext Password
Systems Affected	Oracle JDeveloper 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 10.1.2
Severity	Low Risk
Category	Information disclosure
Vendor URL	http://www.oracle.com/
Author	Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date	12 July 2005 (V 1.00)
Oracle Vuln#	AS09
Time to fix	148

Details
Starting an external program and passing the password as a parameter is unsecure. This is the easiest way to decrypt an encrypted password. Replace the sqlplus.exe with a fake version which stores the passwords in a local file.

JDeveloper starts sqlplus with the following parameter:
system/secretpw1@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=picard)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=ora10103)))

Affected Products
Oracle JDeveloper 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 10.1.2

Patch Information
Apply patches for Jdeveloper and / or DeveloperSuite mentioned in Metalink Note 311038 on your Jdeveloper / DeveloperSuite Installation (normally your client PC).

Workaround
Do not start sqlplus from JDeveloper.

History
14-feb-2005 Oracle secalert 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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