Security Assessment on J2EE Environments

From: Iggeres Bet <iggeres(at)yahoo.es>
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 10:02:27 EST

Dear List,

I am currently working on a Security Assessment on a J2EE project.
The Assessment is based uniquely on the HTTP view of the application.
It doesn't matter here if the software is buggy BUT not exploitable using the HTTP protocol. The project is based in all the keywords and buzzwords around: jsp, servlets, apache, tomcat, weblogic, oracle, struts, coocon, xml, etc, etc.

The problem we found is the lack of online information about concrete security problems seen in these environments. In this particular case the application is so closed (and the project development team has a high professional quality) that our assessment is now focalized to:

• Command Injection: in the SQL queries the application uses PreparedStatement and do some verification before.
• Struts things (seeing all the actions we can execute and pass to java objects).
• Logic problems.

We have successfully inserted our own html tags inside some form fields in the application because we found a problem in the html parser trusted in the project to check that kind of errors.

So, here are the questions:

• There is some online resource about concrete information on security issues on this framework beyond the specific vunerabilities reported?
• Is J2EE and all the Monster Components behind it, a milestone from a Security perspective?

Thank You All
Iggeres

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