Advisory
SAP takes the security of its vast product portfolio very seriously and thus releases security fixes for
vulnerabilities reported by external researchers and their customers every second Tuesday of the month.
SAP Note 2246277
was released on
12.01.2016 and deals with
"SAP ORACLE insecure authentication scheme" within Oracle.
We advice you to follow the instructions, to resolve
missing authentication check
with a
high potential for exploitation
in component BC-DB-ORA-INS.
According to SAP Security Advisory team a workaround exists. It is advisable to implement the correction as part of maintenance.
Risk specification
Unauthenticated users can connect to Oracle databases from remote systems without having to provide credentials/a password.Solution
The Oracle parameter remote_os_authent is set to false. Alternativly, the consulting team has proposed the following: "Disallow remote access to the database port by firewalling.". The suggestion may be considered, as a workaround or compensating mitigation. We recommend installing/applying the correction wherever possible and as soon as possible. Base your decision on whether or not to apply the patch on your companies and systems risk perspective and consider the provided CVSS 6.4 score.
The advisory is valid for
- SAP_APPL 600 18
- SAP_APPL 602 18
- SAP_APPL 603 18
- SAP_APPL 604 18
- SAP_APPL 605 19
- SAP_APPL 606 17
- SAP_APPL 616 14
- SAP_APPL 617 14
- SAP_APPL 618 15
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