CVE-2016-0491

medium

Published 2016-01-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Application Testing Suite component in Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 12.4.0.2 and 12.5.0.2 allows remote attackers to affect integrity and availability via unknown vectors related to Load Testing for Web Apps. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that the UploadFileAction servlet allows remote authenticated users to upload and execute arbitrary files via an * (asterisk) character in the fileType parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39852 remote java verified

Metasploit · 2016-05-25

Oracle Application Testing Suite (ATS) - Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-39691 webapps jsp verified

Zhou Yu · 2016-04-13

Oracle Application Testing Suite (ATS) 12.4.0.2.0 - Authentication Bypass / Arbitrary File Upload

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/http/oracle_ats_file_upload rank 600

Oracle ATS Arbitrary File Upload

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	application_testing_suite	`12.4.0.2`
oracle	application_testing_suite	`12.5.0.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.