CVE-2020-14594 in Hospitality Reporting
Summary
by MITRE
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics product of Oracle Food and Beverage Applications (component: Inventory Integration). The supported version that is affected is 9.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics executes to compromise Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 11/01/2020
The vulnerability identified as CVE-2020-14594 resides within Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics, specifically within the Inventory Integration component of Oracle Food and Beverage Applications. This represents a significant security weakness that affects version 9.1.0 of the software, making it susceptible to exploitation by malicious actors who have already gained access to the underlying infrastructure. The vulnerability's classification as easily exploitable indicates that attackers with high-privileged access to the system where the application executes can leverage this flaw to compromise the entire reporting and analytics platform.
The technical nature of this vulnerability stems from inadequate security controls within the inventory integration functionality, which allows for unauthorized access and potential system takeover when an attacker possesses elevated privileges on the host system. The CVSS score of 6.5 demonstrates a moderate to high severity impact with equal measures of confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. The attack vector requires local access with high privileges, meaning that an attacker must already have significant access rights to the infrastructure, but once achieved, the potential for system compromise becomes substantial.
The requirement for human interaction from someone other than the attacker indicates that this vulnerability likely involves a user-facing component or process that requires manual intervention to complete the exploitation sequence. This could involve actions such as clicking on malicious links, executing specific commands, or interacting with compromised interfaces that appear legitimate to end users. The successful exploitation can result in complete takeover of the Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics system, potentially allowing attackers to access sensitive business data, modify critical inventory information, or disrupt operational processes that depend on accurate reporting and analytics.
Organizations implementing Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics should prioritize immediate mitigation efforts, including applying available patches from Oracle, implementing network segmentation to limit access to the affected system, and conducting comprehensive security assessments of their infrastructure. The vulnerability aligns with CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) and may relate to ATT&CK techniques involving privilege escalation and lateral movement within compromised environments. Given the high-impact potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability breaches, security teams must evaluate their current access controls and monitoring procedures to prevent unauthorized access to critical business systems. The attack scenario suggests that layered security approaches are essential, as the vulnerability's exploitation requires both infrastructure access and user interaction, indicating that traditional perimeter-based security measures may not be sufficient to prevent successful compromise of the system.