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Hospitality Reporting And AnalyticsApplication · Oracle

CVE-2020-14543

HIGH · 7.3 CVSS v3.1 Published 2020-07-15
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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73/100
Remediation priority · Elevated

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 Hospitality Reporting and Analytics product of Oracle Food and Beverage Applications (component: Installation). The supported version that is affected is 9.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics executes to compromise Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

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.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

Vulnerability in the Installation component of Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics 9.1.0 allows a low-privileged attacker with local infrastructure access to compromise the application through the installation process, requiring human interaction from another user to achieve full takeover.

MitigationApply the Oracle patch for CVE-2020-14543. Until then, restrict physical and logical access to the infrastructure where the application is installed, and ensure any installation procedures require supervised execution to prevent tampering.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

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
Hospitality Reporting And AnalyticsApplication
Affected:= 9.1

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
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics installation
    Search for installation directories, services, or registry entries associated with Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics on the system. Check common installation paths and look for the product name in installed programs.
    Affected if The product is found installed on the system
  2. Verify the installed version is 9.1
    Locate version information for the installation. This may be in an about page, version file, or product information within the installation directory. Compare the found version against the affected version 9.1.
    Affected if The installed version is exactly 9.1
  3. Confirm the Installation component is present
    Examine the installation directory for installation-related executables, scripts, or configuration files associated with the setup or deployment process.
    Affected if Installation component binaries or scripts are accessible on the system
  4. Assess physical and logical access to the installation infrastructure
    Review access controls on the directories and systems where the application is installed. Determine if low-privileged users can access or modify installation-related files or locations.
    Affected if Low-privileged users have unauthorized access to installation directories or files

A user is affected if Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics version 9.1 is installed and the installation component or its directories are accessible to low-privileged users without proper access controls.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Apply the Oracle patch for CVE-2020-14543. Until then, restrict physical and logical access to the infrastructure where the application is installed, and ensure any installation procedures require supervised execution to prevent tampering.

Fix this in Hospitality Reporting And Analytics Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation12.0 h
  • Testing6.0 h
  • Review / QA3.0 h
25.0 hours of engineering $4,400
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