Oracle Human Resources up to 12.2.9 Hierarchy Diagrammers denial of service

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A vulnerability marked as very critical has been reported in Oracle Human Resources up to 12.2.9. This affects an unknown part of the component Hierarchy Diagrammers. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-2587. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Human Resources up to 12.2.9. It has been rated as very critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Hierarchy Diagrammers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Human Resources product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Hierarchy Diagrammers). Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3 and 12.2.3-12.2.9. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTPS to compromise Oracle Human Resources. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Human Resources, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Human Resources accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Human Resources accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Human Resources. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 9.9 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L).

The weakness was presented 01/15/2020 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2020 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-2587. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/16/2020). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

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

See VDB-149016, VDB-149015, VDB-149014 and VDB-149013 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Oracle

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• Human Resources

Version

• 12.1.1
• 12.1.2
• 12.1.3
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.2.8
• 12.2.9

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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