Red-Database-Security GmbH - Oracle Security Advisory Oracle JDeveloper passes Plaintext Password Name Oracle JDeveloper passes Plaintext Password Systems Affected Oracle JDeveloper 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 10.1.2 Severity Low Risk Category Information disclosure of Passwords Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com) Date 13 July 2005 (V 1.00) Advisory AKSEC2003-006 Oracle Vuln# AS09 Time to fix 148 days Details ####### Starting an external program and passing the password as a parameter is unsecure. This is the easiest way to decrypt an encrypted password. Replace the sqlplus.exe with a fake version which stores the passwords in a local file. JDeveloper starts sqlplus with the following parameter: system/alexora1@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=picard)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=ora10103))) Workaround ########## Do not start sqlplus from JDeveloper. Patch Information ################# Apply patches for Jdeveloper and / or DeveloperSuite mentioned in Metalink Note 311038 on your Jdeveloper / DeveloperSuite Installation (normally your client PC). History ####### 14-feb-2005 Oracle secalert_us was informed 14-feb-2005 Bug confirmed 12-jul-2005 Oracle published Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2005 12-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory © 2005 by Red-Database-Security GmbH
