JBoss as Administrative Console Password Disclosure

 Product: Embedded Jopr - JBoss AS Administration Console Vendor: Red Hat Middleware, LLC Version: < 1.2 Tested Version: 1.2 Vendor Notified Date: May 29, 2013 Release Date: June 03, 2013 Risk: Moderate Authentication: Required Remote: Yes Description: 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 pivot 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. Exploit steps for proof-of-concept: 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-2013-3734http://www.halock.com/blog/cve-2013-3734-jboss-administration-console-password-returned-response/ amroot.com