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E Business SuiteApplication · Oracle

CVE-2018-2656

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.0 Published 2018-01-18
Patch available
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Vulnerability in the Oracle General Ledger component of Oracle E-Business Suite (subcomponent: Data Manager Server). Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.6 and 12.2.7. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle General Ledger. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle General Ledger accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle General Ledger accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 9.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
E Business SuiteApplication
Affected:= 12.1.1= 12.1.2= 12.1.3= 12.2.3= 12.2.4= 12.2.5= 12.2.6= 12.2.7

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Patch available Apply the vendor patch
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Recommended fix High confidence

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.x with January 2018 CPU applied (12.2.3 through 12.2.7 receive patch updates; later versions 12.2.8+ include the fix)

  1. Obtain the January 2018 Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com/ or the vendor advisory URL
  2. Identify the specific patch number for CVE-2018-2656 from the Oracle Critical Patch Update advisory
  3. Download the appropriate patch for your Oracle E-Business Suite version (12.1.1 through 12.2.7)
  4. Review the patch readme document for pre-requisites, prerequisites, and post-installation steps
  5. Apply the patch using Oracle AD utilities (adpatch) following standard E-Business Suite patching procedures
  6. Verify the patch was successfully applied by checking the adpatch log files
  7. Validate the patch status using Oracle Application Manager (OAM) or by querying ad_bugs table
Caveat Oracle E-Business Suite patches may require downtime and should be tested in a non-production environment first; ensure backup of database and application tier before applying

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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