Java SE Mission Control 5.5 Insecure Transport / Man-In-The-Middle

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[+] Credits / Discovery: John Page AKA hyp3rlinx  
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org  
[+] Source:  
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/JAVA-SE-MISSION-CONTROL-MITM.txt  
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec  
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Vendor:  
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www.oracle.com  
  
  
  
Product:  
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Java SE Mission Control  
  
Oracle Java Mission Control is a tool suite for managing, monitoring,  
profiling, and troubleshooting your Java  
applications. Oracle Java Mission Control has been included in standard  
Java SDK since version 7u40.  
JMC consists of the JMX Console and the Java Flight Recorder.  
  
  
  
Vulnerability Type:  
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Insecure Transport MITM  
  
  
  
CVE Reference:  
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CVE-2016-8328  
  
  
  
Security Issue:  
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Java Mission Control is a sub component of Oracle Java SE. The remote  
vulnerability allows well positioned MITM  
attackers to tamper with and replace updates/downloaded *.JAR files to a  
victims system when using Java Mission Control  
"Install New Software" or Update features as it is over an insecure  
unencrypted transport.  
  
  
References:  
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html  
  
  
  
Exploit/POC:  
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Get MITM position ARP Spoof etc, modify HTTP response to download arbitrary  
JAR file to victims system.  
  
  
  
Severity:  
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Medium  
  
  
  
Disclosure Timeline:  
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Vendor Notification: August 16, 2016  
Vendor Confirmed: August 24, 2016  
Vendor CPU release: January 17, 2017  
January 18, 2017 : Public Disclosure  
  
  
  
[+] Disclaimer  
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prohibits any malicious use of security related information  
or exploits by the author or elsewhere.  
  
hyp3rlinx  
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