CVE-2021-35601
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 · uneditedVulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Students Administration). Supported versions that are affected are 9.0 and 9.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack executes to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.7 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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= 9.0= 9.2CVSS 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
- Adjacent
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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 · scopedApply Oracle October 2021 Critical Patch Update (or later CPU)
- Access Oracle Support and download the October 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU) from https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- Locate the PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack patches within the October 2021 CPU
- Review the patch pre-install requirements and apply any prerequisites
- Apply the relevant security patches for PeopleSoft Enterprise CS SA Integration Pack 9.0 and 9.2
- Verify the patches have been successfully applied by checking the patch inventory
- Restart any affected PeopleSoft Enterprise services as required by the patch documentation
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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