(PT-2012-49) Positive Technologies Security Advisory
Cross-Site Scripting in Oracle Siebel CRM

Vulnerable software

Oracle Siebel CRM
Version: 8.1.1, 8.2.2

Link:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/siebel/overview/index.html

Severity level

Severity level: Medium
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting
Access Vector: Remote

CVSS v2:
Base Score: 5.0
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVE: CVE-2013-1510

Software description

Oracle Siebel CRM is a customer relationship management application used to develop a complex corporate information system.

Vulnerability description

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Oracle Siebel CRM.

The application does not verify input data sent by users, therefore an attacker is able to inject arbitrary code into the page and get access to the session with victim’s privileges.

How to fix

Update your software up to the latest version

Advisory status

26.09.2012 - Vendor gets vulnerability details
16.04.2013 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
25.10.2013 - Public disclosure

Credits

The vulnerability was detected by Pavel Toporkov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)

References

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2012-49
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html

Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:

http://www.ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/

About Positive Technologies

Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com is among the key players in the IT security market in Russia.

The principal activities of the company include the development of integrated tools for information security monitoring (MaxPatrol); providing IT security consulting services and technical support; development of the Securitylab leading Russian information security portal.

Among the clients of Positive Technologies, there are more than 40 state enterprises, more than 50 banks and financial organizations, 20 telecommunication companies, more than 40 plant facilities, as well as IT, service and retail companies from Russia, the CIS countries, the Baltic States, China, Ecuador, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA.

Positive Technologies is a team of highly skilled developers, advisers and experts with years of vast hands-on experience. The company specialists possess professional titles and certificates; they are the members of various international societies and are actively involved in the IT security field development.