Hospitality Opera 5 Property ServicesApplication · Oracle

CVE-2020-14877

MEDIUM · 6.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2020-10-21
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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71/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable Zero-click

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 OPERA 5 Property Services product of Oracle Hospitality Applications (component: Logging). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5 and 5.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Hospitality OPERA 5 Property Services. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Hospitality OPERA 5 Property Services accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Hospitality OPERA 5 Property Services accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

Vulnerability in the Logging component of Oracle Hospitality OPERA 5 Property Services (versions 5.5, 5.6) allows a high-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to perform unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data, as well as unauthorized access to sensitive or complete data sets. The flaw likely involves improper authorization or input validation within the logging functionality.

MitigationApply Oracle's available patches for CVE-2020-14877 to the OPERA 5 Property Services installation. If patches are unavailable, restrict network access to the logging endpoints and ensure high-privileged accounts follow least-privilege principles.

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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
Hospitality Opera 5 Property ServicesApplication
Affected:= 5.5= 5.6

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
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

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

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 installed OPERA 5 Property Services version
    Locate the version information for Oracle Hospitality OPERA 5 Property Services in the system inventory, about screen, or version diagnostic tool used in your deployment
    Affected if The installed version is exactly 5.5 or 5.6
  2. Confirm affected version matches CVE
    Compare your identified version against the affected ranges: 5.5 and 5.6 only
    Affected if The version is exactly 5.5 or 5.6 (not higher or lower)
  3. Verify Logging component is present and enabled
    Check the Oracle OPERA 5 Property Services configuration to determine if the Logging component is installed and operational
    Affected if The Logging component exists and is enabled in the installation
  4. Check network accessibility of HTTP-based logging endpoints
    Determine whether the logging functionality is accessible over HTTP/HTTPS network connections from untrusted networks
    Affected if The logging endpoints are reachable via network (HTTP) from outside trusted segments
  5. Assess high-privileged account exposure
    Review which accounts in OPERA 5 Property Services hold high privileges that could be used to exploit the logging functionality per the CVE description
    Affected if High-privileged accounts exist that could leverage this vulnerability

Your environment is affected if the installed version is exactly 5.5 or 5.6 and the Logging component is network-accessible to high-privileged users.

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 Oracle's available patches for CVE-2020-14877 to the OPERA 5 Property Services installation. If patches are unavailable, restrict network access to the logging endpoints and ensure high-privileged accounts follow least-privilege principles.

Fix this in Hospitality Opera 5 Property Services Scoped from the published advisory
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