CVE-2020-14805

published 2020-10-21

CVE-2020-14805: Vulnerability in the Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Search Integration Engine). Supported…

Priority P2 59 critical 9.1 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A N

Vulnerability in the Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Search Integration Engine). Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 - 12.2.10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
oracle	e-business_suite_secure_enterprise_search	—	—
oracle	e-business_suite_secure_enterprise_search	12.2.3 – 12.2.10	—
oracle_corporation	e-business_suite_secure_enterprise_search	—	—
oracle_corporation	e-business_suite_secure_enterprise_search	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

• → The vulnerability is remotely exploitable over HTTP with no authentication required (PR:N/UI:N), targeting Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search (Search Integration Engine). Monitor for unauthenticated HTTP requests to EBS Search Integration Engine endpoints. ↗
• → Affected versions are Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 through 12.2.10. Identify and prioritize patching of these specific versions. ↗

• · Attack vector is Network over HTTP with no privileges or user interaction required (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), meaning the attack surface is fully exposed on any internet- or network-facing EBS instance running the affected versions. ↗
• · The vulnerability impacts both Confidentiality and Integrity at a HIGH level, meaning successful exploitation can result in full data read and write access to EBS Secure Enterprise Search data. ↗
• · Patch was released as part of Oracle's October 2020 Critical Patch Update (cpuoct2020). Unpatched systems remain at risk. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.1 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 6.4 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

vendor_oracle 9.1 CRITICAL

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