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Patrik Karlsson releases OScanner - A new free Oracle security vulnerability scanner



Today Patrik Karlsson has released a new tool on his web site cqure.net. Patrik's web site already has some great free security tools including two for Oracle, his Oracle toolkit and his database enumeration tool which can be used to find Oracle databases on your network. This new tool is a great addition to his free tools.

OScanner is an Oracle security assessment framework developed in Java. It has a plug-in based architecture and comes with a couple of plug-ins that already do the following:



  • Sid Enumeration

  • Passwords tests (common & dictionary)

  • Enumerate Oracle version

  • Enumerate account roles

  • Enumerate account priveleges

  • Enumerate account hashes

  • Enumerate audit information

  • Enumerate password policies

  • Enumerate database links




This is a very useful tool to start a security audit of an Oracle database with. The start of a sample session is shown here:




C:\petefinnigan.com\patrik_karlson\oscanner_release\oscanner_bin>scanner -s zuli
a -r pete.rep
Oracle Scanner 1.0.0 by patrik@cqure.net
--------------------------------------------------
[-] Checking host zulia
[-] Checking sid (sans) for common passwords
[-] Account CTXSYS/CTXSYS is locked
[-] Account DBSNMP/DBSNMP found
[-] Enumerating system accounts for SID (sans)
[-] Succesfully enumerated 145 accounts
[-] Account HR/HR is locked
[-] Account MDSYS/MDSYS is locked
[-] Account OE/OE is locked
[-] Account OLAPSYS/MANAGER is locked
[-] Account ORDPLUGINS/ORDPLUGINS is locked
[-] Account ORDSYS/ORDSYS is locked
[-] Account PM/PM is locked
[-] Account QS/QS is locked
{output snipped}




I have updated my tools page to add a link to this tool. Patrik has released the tool under a GPL license and hopefully he will release more plug-ins for it or maybe others will submit them, the source and a binary are available from Patriks site. The tool will certainly benefit from additional plug-ins should complete well with tools such as metacortex.

There are links to Patrik’s other tools on my tools page and of course on Patriks site.