PT-2013-06: Current User Context Access in Oracle Siebel CRM

Vulnerable software

Oracle Siebel CRM
Version: 8.1.1, 8.2.2

Link:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/siebel/overview/index.html

Severity level

Severity level: Medium
Impact: Current User Context Access
Access Vector: Remote

CVSS v2:
Base Score: 5.0
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE: CVE-2013-5867

Software description

Oracle Siebel CRM is a customer relationship management application used to develop a complex corporate information system.

Vulnerability description

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Current User Context Access vulnerability in Oracle Siebel CRM.

An attacker is able to access the system and operate in the name of aby user. The attacker can get context bruteforcing certain cookie values. All systems with hard-coded initial value of the used encryption algorithm are vulnerable.

How to fix

Update your software up to the latest version

Advisory status

05.02.2013 - Vendor gets vulnerability details
15.10.2013 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
25.10.2013 - Public disclosure

Credits

The vulnerability was detected by Alexander Tlyapov, Dmitry Sklyarov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)

References

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2013-06
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html

Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:

http://www.ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/