Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Web Access improper authorization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management up to 20.12.21.5/21.12.20.0/22.12.16.0/23.12.10.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Web Access. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-21526. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management up to 20.12.21.5/21.12.20.0/22.12.16.0/23.12.10.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Web Access. 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 Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management product of Oracle Construction and Engineering (component: Web Access). Supported versions that are affected are 20.12.1.0-20.12.21.5, 21.12.1.0-21.12.20.0, 22.12.1.0-22.12.16.0 and 23.12.1.0-23.12.10.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-21526 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 06/19/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1548.002.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214528 (Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (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 (214528). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Class: Improper authorization
CWE: CWE-285 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 214528
Nessus Name: Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (January 2025 CPU)

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Recommended: Upgrade
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12/25/2024 🔍
01/21/2025 +27 days 🔍
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06/19/2025 +149 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-21526 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-21526
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-292808

Entryinfo

Created: 01/21/2025 22:39
Updated: 06/19/2025 02:06
Changes: 01/21/2025 22:39 (64), 01/23/2025 20:42 (2), 06/19/2025 02:06 (1)
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