Oracle exposures and Google Hacking

When the powerful Googlebot crawls a web site it can expose many Oracle-related vulnerabilities and exposures.  For example, just run the Google search below to identify dozens of web-sites with a iSQL*Plus interface, the first-step by a hacker who is interested in launching a buffer overflow attack on your Oracle database:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=intitle%3AiSQL+intitle%3ARelease+inurl%3Aisqlplus&btnG=Search

On the heels of the bestselling book ?Google Hacking for Penetration Testers?, Johnny Long?s idea has opened many people?s eyes about the power of Google when placed in the wrong hands.  This is one of the best computer books of 2005, a novel concept with widespread ramifications for the Oracle DBA:

http://www.bookpool.com/sm/1931836361

You may also enjoy Johnny Longs web site, and be sure to check-out the user-contributed Oracle Google searches:

http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/

If you want the short-course, in this presentation we see the Johnny Long expose the huge power of Google as an intrusion tool:

http://www.red-database-security.com/wp/google_oracle_hacking_us.pdf

There is also an excellent discussion of Google hacking for penetration testers at the red-database-security web site:

http://www.red-database-security.com/wp/google_oracle_hacking_us.pdf

The most frightening section from the above link are the Google searches that can be used to detect if a web site is hosting SQL*Forms, Oracle Discoverer of Oracle Reports, the first-step in a hack attack:

Oracle Application Server:

iAS Demopages

http://www.google.de/search?num=100&q=++%22inurl%3A%2FiASDemos.htm%22

http://www.google.de/search?num=100&q=++%22inurl%3A%2FJ2EEandIA.htm%22

Oracle Forms

Oracle Forms 6i (using CGI)

http://www.google.com/search?q=+inurl%3Af60cgi&btnG=Search&num=100

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=de&c2coff=1&q=+inurl%3Aifcgi60

Oracle Forms 6i (using Servlets)

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=inurl%3Af60servlet

Oracle Forms

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=inurl%3Af90servlet

Oracle Reports

Oracle Reports 6i

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+inurl%3Arwcgi60

Oracle Reports

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22inurl%3Arwservlet%22+%22inurl%3Areports%22&num=100

Oracle Discoverer

Oracle Discoverer Viewer

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22inurl%3Adiscoverer%2Fviewer%22

Oracle Discoverer Plus

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22inurl%3Adiscoverer%2Fplus%22

Oracle Discoverer 10g

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22inurl%3Adiscoverer%2Fapp%22

This is an extremely powerful technique, and every Oracle professional should run these Google commands to see if a improper permission setting (e.g. 744) might expose your Oracle database to a hack attack: