Tableau Server - Blind SQL Injection

Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2014-003:

Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability in Tableau Server



Published: 02/07/14

Version: 1.1



Vendor: Tableau Software (http://www.tableausoftware.com)

Product: Tableau Server

Versions affected:  8.1.X before 8.1.2 and 8.0.X before 8.0.7. Not present

in 7.0.X and earlier.



Product description:

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides

browser-based analytics.



Finding: Blind SQL Injection

Credit: Tanya Secker & Christiaan Esterhuizen of Trustwave SpiderLabs

CVE: CVE-2014-1204

CWE: CWE-89



It is possible for an authenticated user or guest user (if enabled) to

inject arbitrary SQL into the Tableau Server backend database. As a

proof of concept the default database user (Zrails) was retrieved using the

following payload:



http://127.0.0.1/views?modified_after=2013-12-08T23%3A00%3A00.000Z'%20or%20user%20like%20'Zrails



The database appears to be Oracle and both the modified_after and

modified_before parameters are vulnerable.





Remediation Steps:

The vendor has released a fix in version 8.1.2 and version 8.0.7. Version

7.0.X is not affected.



Revision History:

12/06/13 - Vulnerability disclosed

12/06/13 - Vendor responded

12/23/13 - Patch released by vendor

01/24/14 - Advisory published

02/07/14 - Advisory revision published





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