CVE-2020-14750 - Oracle WebLogic Server

 Today on 2nd November 2020 Oracle released overlay patches for the CVE-2020-14750 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2020-14750.html).This CVE-2020-14750 got a score of 9.8 out of 10. According to SANS ISC InfoSec the exploitation of this vulnerability is really trivial, see https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/PATCH+NOW+CVE202014882+Weblogic+Actively+Exploited+Against+Honeypots/26734/Oracle released already overlay patches, which needs to be applied over an already patched Oracle WebLogic Server with the CPU October 2020.Following...

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Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 certified with ATP

Since a few days, the current release of Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 is officially certified with the use of Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) Database.You can use the ATP Database for the Metadata Repository for Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 and/or as application Database.The certification you can see in the What's new Guide https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/developer-tools/forms/12.2.1.4/releasenotes-fnr/whats-new-this-release.html#GUID-5D5D50BB-9358-4009-A324-024EF97CA3D8In...

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In-Process Reports Server

From time to time I am receiving questions concerning the Oracle In-Process Reports Server which come by default with the configuration of Oracle Forms & Reports.Mainly the questions are, how can start or stop the In-Process Reports Server or how to disable the default In-Process Reports Server completely?Start and Stop of the In-Process Reports ServerTo start, simple open a Browser and point to http://<your_server_name>:<Port_of_ManagedServerReports>/reports/rwservlet/startserverTo stop just use http://<your_server_name>:<Port_of_ManagedServerReports>/reports/rwservlet/stopserverDisable...

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Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 on Oracle Linux 8 / Redhat 8

Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 is officially supported and certified with Oracle Linux 8 and Redhat 8. But in case you want to install the Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 you will see that you are running into an error while performing the prerequirement check. # Starting check : CertifiedVersions Expected result: One of oracle-7, redhat-7, redhat-6, oracle-6, SuSE-11, SuSE-12, SuSE-15 Actual Result: redhat-8.2 Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed CertifiedVersions Check: Success. Starting check : Packages Checking...

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Oracle WebLogic 14.1.1 under Podman

Since a few weeks the latest release of the Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is available and I was testing it already on native Linux Servers and within Docker. Now it's time to check Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 under Podman https://podman.io  At first you will need an Oracle Linux 8.2 Server with podman. A really good instruction you can find at oracle-base.com https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/podman-install-on-oracle-linux-ol8 As a starting point, just clone my GitHub Repository https://github.com/DirkNachbar/Docker...

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Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4 - New Add-On Plug-ins available

Oracle released some new Add-On Plug-ins for the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4.x Following new Add-On Plug-Ins are available: Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database Appliance Enterprise Manager for TimesTen Enterprise Manager for Oracle GoldenGate Enterprise Manager for Oracle Unified Directory Enterprise Manager for Utilities (TUGBU) Enterprise Manager for Peoplesoft The installation files for the above mentioned Add-On Plug-Ins can be...

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Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 and Oracle WebLogic Monitoring Exporter

As the latest release of Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is available (see my blogposts https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/03/oracle-weblogic-141100-available.html and https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/03/oracle-weblogic-141100-first-look.html), it's time to test Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 and the Oracle WebLogic Monitoring Exporter https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter In a previous blogpost (https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/02/weblogic-monitoring-with-prometheus-and.html)...

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Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 Docker Image

As since around 2 days the latest Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 was released, I had some time to create Docker Images for the Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 I have created two versions based on WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 Generic with JDK 11: General Docker Image (not optimized with space usage) Optimized Docker Image (nearly 50% space savings) The corresponding Dockerfiles and so on you can find in my GitHub Repository https://github.com/DirkNachbar/Docker/tree/master/OracleWebLogic The Readme for the usage is under https://github.com/DirkNachbar/Docker/blob/master/OracleWebLogic/README1411.md So...

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Oracle WebLogic 14.1.1.0.0 - First Look

Since last night the Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is available for download (see my previous blog post https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/03/oracle-weblogic-141100-available.html). Now let's have a look on the new Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 At first we can use now a JDK 11 with the WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0, for the following showcase I am using a JDK 11.0.6. At first download the required software installation files: WebLogic...

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Oracle WebLogic 14.1.1.0.0 available

Since last night the latest release of the Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is available for download. There are 3 different installation types available for download: Generic Installer (888 MB) Quick Installer (514 MB) Slim Installer (474 MB) The software download files can be found under: https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/fusionmiddleware-downloads.html The overall Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 documentation can be found...

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 certified with Linux 8

Currently Oracle certified the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 Components for the use of Linux 8, which includes the Oracle Linux 8 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. You can find the newly added certifications in My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com) under the tab Certifications: Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1.4.0 Certification: Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 Certification: Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4.0 Certification: Moreover...

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Generating Prometheus Metrics directly from your Oracle Database

Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/) is getting more and more common as a Monitoring Solution, many products are offering out-of-box Prometheus formatted metrics (e.g WildFly, Spring Boot and so on). Even Oracle is providing for the Oracle WebLogic Server a weblogic-monitoring-exporter, which is generating Prometheus formatted metrics (see https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter and checkout my previous blog post "WebLogic Monitoring...

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Weblogic Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Since quite some time Oracle is providing in their GitHub Repository the weblogic-monitoring-exporter https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter. This weblogic-monitoring-exporter is basically a war file, which uses the WebLogic Server RESTful Management API to collect defined metrics of your WebLogic Server and exports them in a Prometheus compatible format. At first you will need to download the get[Version-Number].sh from the...

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