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Oracle tnslsnr security

🗓️ 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2001 James W. Abendschan <[email protected]>Type 
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The remote Oracle tnslsnr has no password assigned. An attacker may use this fact to shut it down arbitrarily, thus preventing legitimate users from using it properly. Use the lsnrctrl SET PASSWORD command to assign a password to the tnslsnr

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2001 James W. Abendschan <[email protected]>
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

# oracle_tnslsnr_security.nasl - NASL script to do a TNS STATUS
# command against the Oracle tnslsnr and grep out "SECURITY=OFF"

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10660");
  script_version("2025-09-09T05:38:49+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-09 05:38:49 +0000 (Tue, 09 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_name("Oracle tnslsnr security");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Databases");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2001 James W. Abendschan <[email protected]>");
  script_dependencies("gb_oracle_database_consolidation.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/oracle_tnslsnr", 1521);
  script_mandatory_keys("oracle/database/tnslsnr/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote Oracle tnslsnr has no password assigned.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may use this fact to shut it down arbitrarily,
  thus preventing legitimate users from using it properly.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"use the lsnrctrl SET PASSWORD command to assign a password to, the tnslsnr.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Workaround");

  exit(0);
}

include("port_service_func.inc");

function tnscmd(sock, command)
{
  command_length = strlen(command);
  packet_length = command_length + 58;

  # packet length - bytes 1 and 2

  plen_h = packet_length / 256;
  plen_l = 256 * plen_h;      # bah, no ( ) ?
  plen_l = packet_length - plen_h;

  clen_h = command_length / 256;
  clen_l = 256 * clen_h;
  clen_l = command_length - clen_l;

  packet = raw_string(
    plen_h, plen_l, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
    0x01, 0x36, 0x01, 0x2c, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0x00,
    0x7f, 0xff, 0x7f, 0x08, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01,
    clen_h, clen_l, 0x00, 0x3a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
    0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x34, 0xe6, 0x00, 0x00,
    0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
    0x00, 0x00, command
    );

  send (socket:sock, data:packet);
  r = recv(socket:sock, length:8192, timeout:5);

  return (r);
}

function oracle_tnslsnr_security(port)
{
  sock = open_sock_tcp(port);
  if (sock)
  {
    cmd = "(CONNECT_DATA=(COMMAND=STATUS))";
    reply = tnscmd(sock:sock, command:cmd);
    close(sock);
    if ( ! reply ) return 0;

    if ("SECURITY=OFF" >< reply)
    {
      security_message(port:port);
    }
    else
    {
      if ("SECURITY=ON" >< reply)
      {
        # FYI
        report = string
        (
        "This host is running a passworded Oracle tnslsnr.\n"
        );
        log_message(port:port, data:report);
      }
    }
  }
}

port = service_get_port( default:1521, proto:"oracle_tnslsnr" );
oracle_tnslsnr_security(port:port);

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