CVE-2017-10273 Path traversal in JDeveloper

Medium 4.7 Published 18 Jan 2018 Updated 4 Oct 2024

A path traversal vulnerability in Oracle JDeveloper allows high-privileged attackers to read, modify, or disrupt data via local access.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2017-10273?

CVE-2017-10273 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Oracle Corporation JDeveloper, published on 18 Jan 2018. 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 JDeveloper component of Oracle Fusion Middleware (subcomponent: Deployment). Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.7.1, 11.1.1.9.0, 11.1.2.4.0, 12.1.3.0.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle JDeveloper executes to compromise Oracle JDeveloper. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle JDeveloper, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle JDeveloper accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle JDeveloper accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle JDeveloper. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.7 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10273?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Jdeveloper.

How do I fix CVE-2017-10273?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-10273 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2017-10273 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2017-10273 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4qr8-xvfr-96r5.