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Oracle Data Redaction is Broken

David Litchfield

David Litchfield details oracle Data Redaction is Broken David Litchfield SECURITY SPECIALIST, DATACOM TSS The Oracle data redaction service is a new feature introduced with Oracle 12c.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Oracle Data Redaction is Broken David Litchfield SECURITY SPECIALIST, DATACOM TSS The Oracle data redaction service is a new feature introduced with Oracle 12c.

Vulnerability Analysis

It allows sensitive data, such as PII, to be redacted or masked to prevent it being exposed to attackers.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

On paper this sounds like a great idea but in practice, Oracle's implementation is vulnerable to multiple attacks that allow an attacker to trivially bypass the masking and launch privilege escalation attacks.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

David Litchfield is a computer security researcher with a special interest in buffer overflow exploitation and database systems. He has written and contributed to several books including the Shellcoder's Handbook, The Database Hacker's Handbook and the Oracle Hacker's Handbook. He spends his spare time diving with great white sharks. Twitter: @dlitchfield

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