Onapsis Security Advisory ONAPSIS-2016-00171: JD Edwards Server Manager Password Disclosure

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Onapsis Security Advisory ONAPSIS-2016-00171: JD Edwards Server Manager Password Disclosure

1. Impact on Business
=====================
By exploiting this vulnerability an unauthenticated attacker could retrive the administration user and passwords from 
the Server Manager compromising the whole JDE landscape hence all of its information and processes.

Risk Level: Critical

2. Advisory Information
=======================
- Public Release Date: 07/28/2016
- Last Revised: 07/28/2016
- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2016-013
- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00172
- CVE:  CVE-2016-0425
- Researcher: Fernando Russ and Matias Mevied
- Vendor Provided CVSS v2: 6 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Onapsis CVSS v2: 10 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
- Onapsis CVSS v3: 10 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

3. Vulnerability Information
============================
- Vendor:  Oracle
- Affected Components: JD Edwards 9.1 EnterpriseOne Server
-  Vulnerability Class:
        - Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306)
        - Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format (CWE-257)
        - Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key (CWE-321)
        - Information Exposure (CWE-200)
- Remotely Exploitable: Yes
- Locally Exploitable: No
- Authentication Required: No 
- Original Advisory: http://onapsis.com/research/security-advisories/jd-edwards-server-manager-password-disclosure

4. Affected Components Description
==================================
The Server Manager use the Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology to connect to all the JD Edwards servers with an 
agent. This technology uses Managed Beans and the standard Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol.

5. Vulnerability Details
========================
The vulnerability could be exploited by invoking the method getEncryptedPasswordForUser without any authentication 
mechanism, using it to get the encrypted password for any server manager users. The password is encrypted without 
initialization vector (IV) and using the Triple Data Encryption Standard (TripleDES) algorithm.  The password could be 
decrypted using a fixed key.

6. Solution
===========
Implement Oracle Critical Patch Update released in January 2016.

7. Report Timeline
==================
- 03/12/2015: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to Oracle.
- 03/17/2015: Oracle confirms reception of vulnerability report.
- 01/19/2016: Oracle releases the Critical Patch Update in January 2016 fixing the vulnerability.
- 07/28/2016: Onapsis Releases Security Advisory.

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===================
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