# CVE-2017-10221: Missing authorization in Hospitality RES 3700

> Low-privileged attackers can modify, read, or disrupt Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 data via a difficult-to-exploit vulnerability requiring user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Aug 2017
- **Updated:** 4 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fgr9-jccg-ghvw

## What is CVE-2017-10221?

CVE-2017-10221 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality RES 3700, published on 8 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: OPS Operations). The supported version that is affected is 5.5. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 executes to compromise Oracle Hospitality RES 3700. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Hospitality RES 3700, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Hospitality RES 3700 accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Hospitality RES 3700. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10221?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Hospitality Res 3700.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-10221?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-10221 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-10221 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10221 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Hospitality RES 3700

- [CVE-2019-3025](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-3025/): Auth bypass in Hospitality RES 3700 (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2017-10225](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10225/): Missing authorization in Hospitality RES 3700 (high 7.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-10221 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-10221 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality RES 3700, published on 8 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10221 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Hospitality RES 3700. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10221/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10221/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10221
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10221
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10221

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