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Oracle Business Transaction Management SOAP Web Service Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA50642

Release Date

17 Sep 2012

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Unpatched

Software

Oracle Business Transaction Management (BTM) 12.x

Where

From local network

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Business Transaction Management, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "writeToFile()" method in the FlashTunnelService SOAP interface is not properly verified before being used to store files. This can be exploited to upload arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.

The vulnerability is reported in version 12.1.0.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

Reported by

Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod.

Original Advisory

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20318/