Oracle Database up to 19.20/21.11 Spatial/Graph denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Database up to 19.20/21.11. Affected is an unknown function of the component Spatial/Graph. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2023-38039. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Database up to 19.20/21.11 (Database Software). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Spatial/Graph. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API. However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.

The weakness was shared 10/17/2023 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2023. It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-38039. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 242816 (NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : curl Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0111)), 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 (242816). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Database Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Database

Version

• 19.0
• 19.1
• 19.2
• 19.3
• 19.4
• 19.5
• 19.6
• 19.7
• 19.8
• 19.9
• 19.10
• 19.11
• 19.12
• 19.13
• 19.14
• 19.15
• 19.16
• 19.17
• 19.18
• 19.19
• 19.20
• 21.0
• 21.1
• 21.2
• 21.3
• 21.4
• 21.5
• 21.6
• 21.7
• 21.8
• 21.9
• 21.10
• 21.11

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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