Re: Analysis of the Oracle April 2007 Critical Patch Update

Hi Abraham,

> Do you know what 'Protocol' means in the risk matrix?

It means the protocol over which an attack will take place.

> I ask this because the component at risk is XMLDB and protocol is HTTP
> (DB06 in Jan 2007). Does that mean that you have to be using Oracle's
> HTTP service along with XMLDB? What if you have XMLDB installed without
> Oracle's HTTP? Is the database still at risk?

DB06 in the January 2007 CPU relates to a Cross Site Scripting issue in the XMLDB Web service. If exploited, it could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain access to another person's already authenticated session. If you're not running the web dispatcher then you will not be vulnerable to this attack.

Bear in mind there is an ftp dispatcher, too, and, if not used, should be turned off to reduce attack surface.

HTH,
David

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