Banking Treasury ManagementApplication · Oracle

CVE-2022-21473

MEDIUM · 5.9 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-04-19
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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63/100
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 Oracle Banking Treasury Management product of Oracle Financial Services Applications (component: Infrastructure). The supported version that is affected is 14.5. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Banking Treasury Management. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Banking Treasury Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Banking Treasury Management accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Banking Treasury Management. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.9 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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 Banking Treasury Management Infrastructure component (version 14.5) allows a low-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise the system. Successful exploitation requires human interaction and enables unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data, along with read access to a subset of data and partial denial of service.

MitigationApply the Oracle Critical Patch Update that addresses CVE-2022-21473. Since the vulnerability requires human interaction and has high attack complexity, prioritize patching based on exposure and ensure staff are trained to recognize social engineering attempts.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

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
Banking Treasury ManagementApplication
Affected:= 14.5

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
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/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. Identify Oracle Banking Treasury Management version
    Check the installed version of Oracle Banking Treasury Management through the Oracle opatch lsinventory command, Oracle Enterprise Manager, or by querying the Oracle inventory tables (like VERSION_COMMENTS in DBA_REGISTRY). Compare the installed version to the affected version 14.5.
    Affected if The installed version is exactly 14.5.0.0.0 or reports as version 14.5.
  2. Verify Oracle Banking Treasury Management Infrastructure component
    Confirm the Oracle Banking Treasury Management Infrastructure component is installed. Check the DBA_REGISTRY or Oracle inventory to confirm this specific subcomponent exists in the environment.
    Affected if The Oracle Banking Treasury Management Infrastructure component is present and reporting version 14.5.
  3. Assess network exposure of the Banking Treasury system
    Review network configuration to determine if the Oracle Banking Treasury Management web interfaces (typically accessed via HTTP/HTTPS) are exposed to network access beyond the internal trusted network.
    Affected if The system is accessible via network (HTTP) from locations outside the trusted internal network.
  4. Review user privilege assignments
    Audit the Oracle user accounts and roles in the Banking Treasury Management system to identify any low-privileged accounts that exist, as exploitation targets a low-privileged attacker.
    Affected if Low-privileged user accounts exist in the Oracle Banking Treasury Management system.
  5. Evaluate human interaction requirements
    Assess whether typical user workflows in the Treasury Management system involve actions where an attacker could socially engineer a user into performing a malicious action (such as clicking a malicious link).
    Affected if Users can be tricked into performing actions through the web interface that could be leveraged by an attacker.

A user is affected if their Oracle Banking Treasury Management Infrastructure component is exactly version 14.5 and is exposed to network access, as the vulnerability requires both the specific version and network accessibility for a low-privileged attacker to exploit with human interaction.

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 the Oracle Critical Patch Update that addresses CVE-2022-21473. Since the vulnerability requires human interaction and has high attack complexity, prioritize patching based on exposure and ensure staff are trained to recognize social engineering attempts.

Fix this in Banking Treasury Management Scoped from the published advisory
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  • Testing16.0 h
  • Review / QA4.0 h
36.0 hours of engineering $6,080
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