Security Advisories and Notifications

Subject: Security Advisory (BEA07-179.00)

From: Oracle Corporation

Minor Subject:BEA Plumtree Foundation internal hostname disclosure vulnerability.

Product(s) Affected: BEA Plumtree Foundation and BEA AquaLogic Interaction

Threat level: Low

An attacker can get the internal hostname of the server hosting BEA Plumtree Foundation.

Severity: Low

This information could be useful to a malicious user attempting to gain illegal access to resources on internal systems.

A problem was identified that could potentially cause a security vulnerability in certain versions of the BEA Plumtree Foundation and BEA AquaLogic Interaction. Configuration changes are available to correct this problem (see Section II). Oracle treats potential security problems with a high degree of urgency and endeavors to take appropriate steps to help ensure the security of our customers’ systems. As a result, Oracle strongly suggests the following actions:

  1. I. Read the following advisory.
  2. II. Apply the suggested action.
  3. III. If you know of any additional users interested in future security advisories, please forward them the registration instructions included in this advisory.

I. Advisory

On earlier BEA Plumtree Foundation releases, the internal hostname of the server hosting BEA Plumtree Foundation was available in every requested HTML page within HTML comments. If the user were to use the View Source feature of their browser, then the internal hostname would be visible in an HTML comment.

This advisory corrects this issue by providing configuration information to prevent the internal hostname from appearing in the HTML page in an HTML comment unless specifically enabled.

Impact and CVSS Ratings:

  1. CVSS Severity Score: 2.3 (Low)
  2. Attack Range (AV): Remote
  3. Attack Complexity (AC): Low
  4. Authentication Level(Au): Not Required
  5. Impact Type: Partial Integrity Impact
  6. Vulnerability Type: Access Validation
  7. CVSS Base Score Vector: (AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/I:P/A:N/B:N)
  1. Online Calculator: http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator

The following versions of BEA Plumtree Foundation and AquaLogic Interaction are affected by this vulnerability

  • BEA Plumtree Foundation 6.0 through service pack 1 on all platforms.
  • BEA AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 through service pack 1, on all platforms.

II. SUGGESTED ACTION

Oracle strongly recommends the following course of actions.

BEA Plumtree Foundation 6.0

BEA AquaLogic Interaction 6.1

  1. Use the following steps to correct this issue:
  2. Shutdown the application server that is hosting the portal.
  3. Edit the portalconfig.xml file located in the %PT_HOME%\settings\portal folder, and change the "MachineName" entry from the hostname to an URL as follows:

    Change

    
    	           
    		<setting name="MachineName">
    		<value xsi:type="xsd:string">HostName</value>
    		</setting> 
    	
    	

    to

    
    	            
    		 <setting name="MachineName"> 
    		<value xsi:type="xsd:string">SecureNameOrURL</value>
    		</setting>
    	
    	
  4. Restart the application server that is hosting the portal.

BEA AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 MP 1

  1. Use the following steps to correct this issue:
  2. Shutdown the application server that is hosting the portal.
  3. Edit the portalconfig.xml file located in the %PT_HOME%\settings\portal folder, and change the "PerformanceComments" entry from 1 to 0 as follows:

    Change

    
    	            
    		<setting name="PerformanceComments"> 
    		<value xsi:type="xsd:integer">1</value> 
    		</setting> 
    	
    	

    to

    
    	 
    		<setting name="PerformanceComments"> 
    		<value xsi:type="xsd:integer">0</value> 
    		</setting> 
    	
    	
  4. Restart the application server that is hosting the portal.

III. REFERENCES

BEA Systems recognizes the contributions from the following professional organizations for their assistance in investigating this matter:

Adrian Pastor adrian.pastor@procheckup.com, Jan Fry jan.fry@procheckup.com and Richard Brain richard.brain@procheckup.com from ProCheckUp Ltd, www.procheckup.com.

SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS

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Thank you,

Oracle Corporation