CVE-2017-10181 Denial of service in FLEXCUBE Direct Banking

Medium 6.8 Published 8 Aug 2017 Updated 4 Oct 2024

Low-privileged attackers can cause a complete denial of service and unauthorized data access in Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking via the Forgot Password feature.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2017-10181?

CVE-2017-10181 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Corporation FLEXCUBE Direct Banking, published on 8 Aug 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Forgot Password). Supported versions that are affected are 12.0.2 and 12.0.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking accessible data and unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10181?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Flexcube Direct Banking.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10181?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-10181 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-10181 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10181 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-8w8c-v4pq-fm9h.