SB2021072747 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle JDeveloper
Published: July 27, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12415)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input when using the tool XSSFExportToXml to convert user-provided Microsoft Excel documents. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and read files from the local filesystem or from internal network resources on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.
2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12402)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the file name encoding algorithm can get into an infinite loop when faced with
specially crafted inputs. A remote attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
3) Exposed dangerous method or function (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10683)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to abuse implemented functionality.
The vulnerability exists due to dom4j allows by default external DTDs and External Entities. A remote attacker can abuse this functionality and perform XXE attack against application that uses dom4j default configuration.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.