Advisory: Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in Oracle I-Recruitment File Uploading Module- E-Business Suite

CVE-2010-2404

Version Affected - 11.5.10.2, 12.0.6, 12.1.3

About: Oracle I-Recruitment Suite
Oracle iRecruitment is a web based full-cycle recruiting solution that
gives managers, recruiters and candidates the ability to manage every
phase of finding, recruiting, hiring, and tracking new employees. It is a
part of Oracle E-business suite.

Discussion:
A persistent cross site scripting vulnerability exists in the I-Recruitment
portal. The account information page allows the user to upload his resume in 
Microsoft Word document. An attacker can construct a malicious MSWord file to
conduct XSS attack by setting XSS payload in hyperlinks in order to bypass
conversion filters.

For attack details , Refer to the following paper:
http://secniche.org/papers/SNS_09_01_Evad_Xss_Filter_Msword.pdf

 

Disclosure:
The vulnerability was disclosed to Oracle in January 2009 and is patched
in October 2010 CPU release.

Credit:
Aditya K Sood of SecNiche Security

Contact:
adi_ks [at] secniche.org

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