# CVE-2018-11055: Information disclosure in BSAFE Micro Edition Suite

> A local attacker can read sensitive PKCS #12 data from heap memory due to improper memory clearing in RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.4 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 31 Aug 2018
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7mh8-r5jc-g27h

## What is CVE-2018-11055?

CVE-2018-11055 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Application Testing Suite, published on 31 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, versions prior to 4.0.11 (in 4.0.x) and prior to 4.1.6.1 (in 4.1.x), contains an Improper Clearing of Heap Memory Before Release ('Heap Inspection') vulnerability. Decoded PKCS #12 data in heap memory is not zeroized by MES before releasing the memory internally and a malicious local user could gain access to the unauthorized data by doing heap inspection.

Weakness: CWE-404 (Improper Resource Shutdown or Release)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-11055?

It affects 12 products.


Products: Dell Bsafe, Oracle Application Testing Suite, Oracle Communications Analytics, Oracle Communications Ip Service Activator, Oracle Core Rdbms, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Oracle Goldengate Application Adapters, Oracle Jd Edwards Enterpriseone Tools, Oracle Real User Experience Insight, Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server, Oracle Security Service, Oracle Timesten In-Memory Database.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-11055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-11055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-11055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-11055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Application Testing Suite

- [CVE-2015-0537](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0537/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-15769](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15769/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2018-11058](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11058/): Memory corruption in BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2018-11054](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11054/): Integer overflow in BSAFE Micro Edition Suite (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2016-0923](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0923/): Weak cryptography in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-11055 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-11055 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Application Testing Suite, published on 31 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-11055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Application Testing Suite. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11055/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11055/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11055
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11055
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11055

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