Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] Advisory    #DSECRG-09-025

http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=125 

Application:                    Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES)
Versions Affected:              Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) version 10.1.8.2.0  
Vendor URL: http://www.oracle.com 
Bugs:                           XSS
Exploits:                       YES
Reported:                       21.01.2009
Vendor response:                23.01.2009
Date of Public Advisory:        16.07.2009
CVE:                            CVE-2009-1968
Description:                    XSS IN search query                             
Author:                         Alexandr Polyakov
                                Digital Security Reasearch Group [DSecRG] (research [at] dsecrg [dot] com)


Description
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Linked XSS vulnerability found "search" script of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES).  



Details
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Vulnerability found  In page /search/query/search. Vulnerable parameter search_p_groups.

Example
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&q=1234&btnSearch=Search">http://[localhost]:7777/search/query/search?search.timezone=&search_p_groups="'>&q=1234&btnSearch=Search 


Attacker can send evil link to logged in administrator, get adminiatrators cookie access to system with Administrator rights



Fix Information
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Information was published in CPU July 2009.
All customers can download CPU petches following instructions from: 

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujul2009.html 

Original advisory:
http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=125 

Credits
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Oracle give a credits for Alexandr Polyakov from Digital Security Company in CPU July 2009.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujul2009.html 



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Polyakov Alexandr
Chief Information Security Analyst
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