Advisory: Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite XSS Vulnerability

Summary

Name: Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite XSS Vulnerability
Release Date: 15 July 2008
Reference: LSD003-2008
CVE Number: CVE-2008-2612
Discover: Dave Lewis
Vendor: Oracle
Product: Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite
Systems Affected: version 8.3.2 (as tested)
NB. Other versions may be affected.

Risk: Important
Status: Published

Reference:
1) https://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2008/07/15/advisory-oracle-hyperion-…ility/
2) http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujul2008.html

Time Line

Discovered: 22 January 2008
Reported: 22 January 2008
Fixed: 25 February 2008
Patch Release: 15 July 2008
Published: 15 July 2008

Description

The Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite contains a vulnerability which is susceptible to a cross site scripting (XSS) attack.

Impact: a remote attacker could execute a XSS attack that could pass arbitrary html to the user which can capture usernames, passwords, session cookies and manipulate data.

Technical Details

Input passed to the software is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.

Fix Information

This issue has been resolved.

The patch may be obtained via:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujul2008.html

Notes

I would like to thank Bruce and the Oracle security team for their attention to this problem.

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