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Business IntelligenceApplication · Oracle

CVE-2021-2003

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Published 2021-01-20
Mitigation only
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58/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable

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 Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Analytics Web Dashboards). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.0.0.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.3.0 and 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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 · moderate confidence

A vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition's Analytics Web Dashboards allows low-privileged attackers with network access via HTTP to achieve unauthorized read and write (update/insert/delete) access to a subset of accessible data. The attack requires human interaction and may impact additional products due to scope change.

MitigationApply Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2021 or later to obtain the security fix for this vulnerability in the Analytics Web Dashboards component.

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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
Business IntelligenceApplication
Affected:= 5.5.0.0.0= 11.1.1.9.0= 12.2.1.3.0= 12.2.1.4.0

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
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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.

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  1. Identify Oracle Business Intelligence version
    Check the Oracle BI version through Enterprise Manager (Fusion Middleware Control), the Oracle BI Administration Tool, or examine the ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/modules/oracle.bi.ee directory for version.info. On the system console, navigate to the BI Domain > bifoundation > coreapplication > About Oracle Business Intelligence.
    Affected if installed version equals 5.5.0.0.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.3.0, or 12.2.1.4.0
  2. Confirm Analytics Web Dashboards component is running
    In Oracle Enterprise Manager (Fusion Middleware Control), navigate to coreapplication > Capacity > Components, or check the Oracle BI Server status via opmnctl process. The Analytics Web Dashboards is part of the coreapplication deployment.
    Affected if Analytics Web Dashboards component is deployed and running as part of the Oracle Business Intelligence installation
  3. Verify network accessibility of HTTP services
    Check if the Oracle BI Presentation Server (commonly on port 9502, 9704, or 443/8080) is exposed to the network. Review load balancer configurations, web server plugins, and firewall rules that expose the analytics URLs (/analytics/) to untrusted networks.
    Affected if Analytics Web Dashboards HTTP endpoint is accessible from network locations beyond trusted administrators
  4. Review for anomalous data access patterns
    Examine Oracle BI audit logs and access logs (located in $ORACLE_HOME/instances/instance1/diagnostics/logs/OracleBIAudit) and the BI Publisher audit repository for unexpected read or write operations performed by low-privilege users.
    Affected if audit logs show data access or modification by users who should not have such permissions to the affected data subsets

A user is affected if their Oracle Business Intelligence installation runs version 5.5.0.0.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.3.0, or 12.2.1.4.0 AND the Analytics Web Dashboards component is network-accessible via HTTP.

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Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Apply Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2021 or later to obtain the security fix for this vulnerability in the Analytics Web Dashboards component.

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