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Outside In TechnologyApplication · Oracle

CVE-2021-2068

HIGH · 8.6 CVSS v3.1 Published 2021-01-20
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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95/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges 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 Outside In Technology product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Outside In Filters). Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.4 and 8.5.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Outside In Technology. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Outside In Technology accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Outside In Technology accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Outside In Technology. Note: Outside In Technology is a suite of software development kits (SDKs). The protocol and CVSS score depend on the software that uses the Outside In Technology code. The CVSS score assumes that the software passes data received over a network directly to Outside In Technology code, but if data is not received over a network the CVSS score may be lower. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L).

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 Oracle Outside In Technology's Filters component (versions 8.5.4 and 8.5.5). An unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP can exploit this to create, delete, or modify critical data, gain unauthorized read access to a subset of data, and cause partial denial of service. The CVSS assumes the software passes network-received data directly to Outside In code.

MitigationApply Oracle's security patches for Outside In Technology. If possible, sanitize or validate data before passing it to the Outside In SDK to reduce the attack surface, and ensure the SDK is not directly exposed to untrusted network input.

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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
Outside In TechnologyApplication
Affected:= 8.5.4= 8.5.5

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
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

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

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. Locate Oracle Outside In Technology installation
    Search for Outside In installation directories or check Oracle product inventory on the system. Common locations include Oracle product directories or application-specific bundled installations.
    Affected if Oracle Outside In Technology is not found on the system, the vulnerability does not apply.
  2. Identify the installed version of Outside In Filters component
    Check version information in the installation directory, product documentation, or application metadata. Look for version files or DLL/version properties in the Outside In binaries directory.
    Affected if The installed version is exactly 8.5.4 or exactly 8.5.5.
  3. Determine if the application exposes Outside In to network input
    Review application architecture and configuration to determine if the Outside In Filters component processes data received via HTTP/network requests without sanitization. Check if the application passes network-received data directly to the Outside In SDK.
    Affected if The application passes unsanitized network data directly to Outside In Filters and is accessible via HTTP from the network.
  4. Check network exposure of the affected component
    Review firewall rules, application bindings, and network listener configurations to determine if the service using Outside In is accessible over the network on HTTP ports.
    Affected if The service using Outside In Filters is reachable via HTTP from untrusted network sources.

The environment is affected only if Oracle Outside In Technology version 8.5.4 or 8.5.5 is installed AND the application passes unsanitized network-received data directly to the Outside In Filters component accessible via HTTP.

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 security patches for Outside In Technology. If possible, sanitize or validate data before passing it to the Outside In SDK to reduce the attack surface, and ensure the SDK is not directly exposed to untrusted network input.

Fix this in Outside In Technology Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Implementation8.0 h
  • Testing12.0 h
  • Review / QA4.0 h
28.0 hours of engineering $4,760
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