Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12.2.1.4.0 Analytics Web Answers denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12.2.1.4.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Analytics Web Answers. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2023-24998. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12.2.1.4.0 (Business Process Management Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Analytics Web Answers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Apache Commons FileUpload before 1.5 does not limit the number of request parts to be processed resulting in the possibility of an attacker triggering a DoS with a malicious upload or series of uploads. Note that, like all of the file upload limits, the new configuration option (FileUploadBase#setFileCountMax) is not enabled by default and must be explicitly configured.

The weakness was presented 07/18/2023 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2023 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-24998. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214593 (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (January 2025 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (214593). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

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Class: Denial of service
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Nessus ID: 214593
Nessus Name: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (January 2025 CPU)

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2023
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-24998 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-24998
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-234853

Entryinfo

Created: 07/19/2023 06:38
Updated: 11/05/2025 23:18
Changes: 07/19/2023 06:38 (41), 08/13/2023 13:46 (2), 08/13/2023 13:51 (10), 01/25/2025 00:09 (17), 11/05/2025 23:18 (1)
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