JBoss AS Administrative Console Password Disclosure

Affected products: Embedded Jopr-JBoss AS Administration Console Author: Red Hat Middleware, LLC affected versions: <1.2 tested version: 1.2 Overview: passwords submitted to the application are returned in clear form in later responses from the application. although the password field is masked, it is visible via the page source regardless of SSL. this behavior increases the risk that passwords will be captured by an attacker. specifically, this can be leveraged to login and gain access to configured databases by viewing the page source or using browser tools such as "inspect element" in chrome and firefox. successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in taking complete control of database servers. test Proof 1. navigate to: JBossAS Servers> JBoss AS> Resources> Datasources 2. select Datasource 3. view page source 4. find input type = "password" 5. "value =" will contain the database password. 6. dump database. vendor Notified: Yes Vendor Response: Does not consider this to be an exploitable security flaw due to type authenticated. reference: CVE-2013-3734 http://www.halock.com/blog/cve-2013-3734-jboss-administration-console-password-returned-response/ Amroot.com