CVE-2024-20916
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 Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform product of Oracle Enterprise Manager (component: Event Management). The supported version that is affected is 13.5.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform executes to compromise Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/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 analysisThe application fails to correctly restrict what a user can do or reach, so functions or resources are available to people who should not have them. Attackers simply probe for the paths where the check is missing or wrong. The fix is to enforce access-control decisions consistently on every request, evaluated against the acting user rather than assumed from context.
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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= 13.5.0.0CVSS 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
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
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 · scopedOracle Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.0 with January 2024 Critical Patch Update applied (or latest available patch set update)
- 1. Review the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.0 patch documentation at the January 2024 Critical Patch Update advisory (cpujan2024)
- 2. Identify the specific patch number for CVE-2024-20916 from Oracle's patch database for Enterprise Manager Base Platform 13.5.0.0
- 3. Download the patch from Oracle Support (support.oracle.com) using your Oracle SSO credentials
- 4. Back up the current Enterprise Manager installation and database before applying any patches
- 5. Apply the patch following Oracle's standard Enterprise Manager patch application procedures using OPatch or EM CLI
- 6. Verify the patch was applied successfully by checking the patch inventory
- 7. Restart Enterprise Manager services as required by the patch
- 8. Validate that the Event Management component is functioning correctly post-patch
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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