Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.55/8.56/8.57 Activity Guide access control

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.55/8.56/8.57. This affects an unknown part of the component Activity Guide. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-2772. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.55/8.56/8.57 (Enterprise Resource Planning Software). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Activity Guide. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products (subcomponent: Activity Guide). Supported versions that are affected are 8.55, 8.56 and 8.57. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The weakness was disclosed 07/16/2019 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - Juli 2019 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-2772 since 12/14/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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• Enterprise Resource Planning Software

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• Oracle

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• PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

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• 8.55
• 8.56
• 8.57

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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