Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Web Access improper authorization

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management up to 20.12.21.5/21.12.20.0/22.12.1.0. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Web Access. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-21558. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management up to 20.12.21.5/21.12.20.0/22.12.1.0. This issue affects an unknown function 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. The summary by CVE is:

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 and 22.12.1.0. 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 at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-21558 since 12/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/19/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

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). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Project Management Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

Version

• 20.12.21.0
• 20.12.21.1
• 20.12.21.2
• 20.12.21.3
• 20.12.21.4
• 20.12.21.5
• 21.12.0
• 21.12.1
• 21.12.2
• 21.12.3
• 21.12.4
• 21.12.5
• 21.12.6
• 21.12.7
• 21.12.8
• 21.12.9
• 21.12.10
• 21.12.11
• 21.12.12
• 21.12.13
• 21.12.14
• 21.12.15
• 21.12.16
• 21.12.17
• 21.12.18
• 21.12.19
• 21.12.20.0
• 22.12.0
• 22.12.1.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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