Weaver E-cology OA System SQL Ijection Vulnerability Threat Alert

Weaver E-cology OA System SQL Ijection Vulnerability Threat Alert

outubro 28, 2019 | Adeline Zhang
  1. Vulnerability Description

On October 10, 2019, the national information security vulnerability sharing platform of China (CNVD) announced a SQL injection vulnerability (CNVD-2019-34241) in the Weaver e-cology OA system. When the workflowcentertreedata interface of the Weaver e-cology OA system uses the Oracle database, due to the loose splicing of the built-in SQL statements, there is a SQL injection vulnerability in the Weaver e-cology OA system.

By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can send a specially crafted SQL statement remotely without authorization to obtain database’s sensitive information. At present, the vulnerability POC has been made public, but no patch has been released officially.

References:

https://www.cnvd.org.cn/webinfo/show/5235

 2. Scope of Impact

Affected Versions

  • The Weaver e-Science OA system using the JSP version of Oracle database

 3. Mitigations

  • Product protection

Users deployed with NSFOCUS web application protection system and network intrusion prevention system (IPS) have the ability to protect against  the SQL injection vulnerability.

Alerts on WAF

Alerts on IPS

 

  • Temporary Mitigation Measures

 

At present, the Weaver OA has not officially released a patch to fix the vulnerability. The workarounds are as follows:

  1. Using the parameter check method, block parameters with SQL syntax;
  2. Using the pre-compiled processing method, handle SQL statements spliced with user parameters;
  3. Before the parameters are about to enter the database, perform the integrity check on the semantics of SQL statements to confirm that the semantics has not changed.
  4. When a SQL injection vulnerability occurs, filter or verify the parameters before they are spliced into SQL statements. Do not rely on the protection code at the beginning of the program.
  5. Regularly audit the database execution log to see if there is any SQL statement execution outside the normal logic of the application;
  6. It is forbidden to make the affected systems publicly available on the Internet.

Statement

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