Oracle Database Enterprise Edition up to 19.22/21.13 Sharding denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition up to 19.22/21.13. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Sharding Component. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-20995. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition up to 19.22/21.13. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Sharding Component. 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 availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Sharding component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.22 and 21.3-21.13. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having DBA privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Oracle Database Sharding. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Database Sharding. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-20995 since 12/07/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Database Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Database Enterprise Edition

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
• 19.21
• 19.22
• 21.0
• 21.1
• 21.2
• 21.3
• 21.4
• 21.5
• 21.6
• 21.7
• 21.8
• 21.9
• 21.10
• 21.11
• 21.12
• 21.13

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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