CVE-2020-14855: Vulnerability in the Oracle Universal Work Queue product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Work Provider Administration). The supported version that is…

PriorityP260critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.15%

80.0th percentile

Vulnerability in the Oracle Universal Work Queue product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Work Provider Administration). The supported version that is affected is 12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Universal Work Queue. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Universal Work Queue. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
oracle	universal_work_queue	—	—
oracle_corporation	universal_work_queue	—	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

→CVE-2020-14855 targets Oracle Universal Work Queue (Work Provider Administration component) in Oracle E-Business Suite version 12.1.3 via unauthenticated HTTP network access — monitor for unexpected or unauthenticated HTTP requests to Work Provider Administration endpoints in EBS 12.1.3 ↗
→The vulnerability is remotely exploitable with no authentication required (PR:N/UI:N) over HTTP, resulting in full takeover (C:H/I:H/A:H) — alert on anomalous unauthenticated access patterns to Oracle EBS Work Queue administration interfaces ↗

·Only Oracle E-Business Suite version 12.1.3 is listed as affected; other EBS versions are not confirmed vulnerable per the advisory ↗
·The attack vector is network (HTTP) with no authentication or user interaction required, meaning no network segmentation or authentication controls are in place by default to prevent exploitation ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.010.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vendor_oracle9.8CRITICAL

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