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Peoplesoft Enterprise Campus Software Campus CommunityApplication · Oracle

CVE-2021-35606

MEDIUM · 5.7 CVSS v3.1 Published 2021-10-20
Patch available
A vendor patch is available. No clean upgrade release — apply the published patch.
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59/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

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 PeopleSoft Enterprise CS Campus Community product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Notification Framework). 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 Campus Community executes to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise CS Campus Community. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all PeopleSoft Enterprise CS Campus Community 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
Peoplesoft Enterprise Campus Software Campus CommunityApplication
Affected:= 9.0= 9.2

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
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

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Patch available Apply the vendor patch
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Recommended fix Moderate confidence

Apply Oracle PeopleSoft Critical Patch Update October 2021 (CPUOct2021) or later

  1. Navigate to https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
  2. Locate the PeopleSoft Enterprise CS Campus Community entry for CVE-2021-35606
  3. Download and apply the October 2021 Critical Patch Update (CPU) for PeopleSoft
  4. After patching, verify the Notification Framework component is updated by checking the PeopleSoft version information in the PIA (PeopleSoft Internet Architecture) or via the version details in the Enterprise Components diagnostic component
Caveat Oracle CPU patches are cumulative and typically non-breaking; apply in non-production environment first to verify compatibility with customizations

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