Oracle Project Foundation up to 12.2.13 Technology Foundation improper authorization

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle Project Foundation up to 12.2.13. This impacts an unknown function of the component Technology Foundation. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-21506. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Project Foundation up to 12.2.13. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Technology Foundation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Project Foundation product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Technology Foundation). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.13. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Project Foundation. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-21506 since 12/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/23/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1548.002.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214592 (Oracle E-Business Suite (January 2025 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (214592). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Project Management Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Project Foundation

Version

• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1
• 12.2.2
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.2.8
• 12.2.9
• 12.2.10
• 12.2.11
• 12.2.12
• 12.2.13

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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