[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-012] Oracle JD Edwards JDENET Firewall Bypass

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-012: Oracle JD Edwards JDENET Firewall Bypass

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?1. Impact on Business
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By exploiting this vulnerability, a remote unauthenticated might be able to connect to the ERP system, bypassing weak 
network firewall configurations.
This might result in obtaining remote access to the ERP system, even though this access was supposed to be restricted 
to internal networks.

- -- Risk Level: Low


2. Advisory Information
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- -- Release Date: 2011-04-27

- -- Last Revised: 2011-04-27

- -- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-12

- -- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00024

- -- Researcher: Juan Pablo Perez Etchegoyen


3. Vulnerability Information
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- -- Vendor: ORACLE

- -- Affected Components:

* JD Edwards 9.0 EnterpriseOne Server + EnterpriseOne  Tools 8.98
( older versions might be also affected)

- -- Vulnerability Class: Abuse of designed functionality

- -- Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- -- Locally Exploitable: No

- -- Authentication Required: No

- -- Original Advisory: http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-12


4. Affected Components Description
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JDENet is a network communication middleware that performs network communications workstation-to-server and 
server-to-server. It is used to call
remote functions, to authenticate users and transmit information between hosts in a JD Edwards environment.


5. Vulnerability Details
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If a specially-crafted UDP packet is sent to the JDENet port, the JDENET service creates a TCP connection to the 
provided IP and PORT parameters.
This connection could be used to access the JDENET and all ERP functionallity provided through that callback connection.

Further technical details about this issue are not disclosed at this moment with the purpose of providing enough time 
to affected customers to patch
their systems and protect against the exploitation of the
described vulnerability.

6. Solution
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Apply Oracle Critical Patch update April ? 2010. More information available on 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html
Onapsis strongly recommends Oracle customers to download the related security fixes and apply them to the affected 
components in order to reduce
business risks.


7. Report Timeline
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* 2010-09-20: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to Oracle.
* 2010-09-21: Oracle confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
* 2010-09-24: Oracle states vulnerability is under investigation.
* 2010-10-07: Oracle confirms vulnerability.
* 2011-04-19: Oracle releases fixes in CPU.
* 2011-04-27: Onapsis releases security advisory.


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