RSA AM 7.1: Security Vulnerability reported by IBM Rational AppScan 'Potential Order Information Found'
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2012-06-27
Article Number
000042375
Applies To
RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 SP4
IBM Rational AppScan Enterprise Edition
Issue
Address possible security vulnerability reported by IBM Rational AppScan security scan "Potential Order Information Found"
Security scan reported instances of "Potential Order Information Found". It is possible to gather sensitive information about the web application such as usernames, passwords, machine name and/or sensitive file locations.

Cause
Reported against multiple URL's:
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsconsole.help/console-help/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsopsconsole.help/console-help/styles/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsopsconsole.help/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsconsole.help/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsopsconsole.help/console-help/images/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsopsconsole.help/images/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/operations-console/order.txt(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/operations-console/order.htm(Directory: )
https://<macine_name>:7072/operations-console/order.html(Directory: )
Resolution

False Alarm:

This is a false alarm. We do not use order.txt

example:

Vulnerable URL: https://<macine_name>:7072/console-infocenter/content/help:/com.rsa.imsopsconsole.help/console-help/styles/order.txt(Directory: )

Remediation Tasks: Do not keep sensitive information in easy to guess file names, or restrict access to them

 

but styles has doc_styles.css and print_styles.css and doesn?t contain order.txt

 

Scanner inserts the above url with order.txt and looks for specific error while application filters out the parameter order.txt as it doesn't exist.