# CVE-2017-10372: Missing authorization in Hospitality Guest Access

> High-privileged attackers can modify critical data or cause denial of service in Oracle Hospitality Guest Access via HTTP.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Oct 2017
- **Updated:** 4 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c863-p3w6-q4j3

## What is CVE-2017-10372?

CVE-2017-10372 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Guest Access, published on 19 Oct 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Guest Access component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: Base). Supported versions that are affected are 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Hospitality Guest Access. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Hospitality Guest Access, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Hospitality Guest Access accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Hospitality Guest Access. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.7 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10372?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Hospitality Guest Access.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-10372?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-10372 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-10372 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10372 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Guest Access

- [CVE-2018-2604](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2604/): Information disclosure in Hospitality Guest Access (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-10370](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10370/): Information disclosure in Hospitality Guest Access (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2018-2852](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2852/): Missing authorization in Hospitality Guest Access (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2018-2606](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2606/): Information disclosure in Hospitality Guest Access (medium 6.2)
- [CVE-2017-10219](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10219/): Information disclosure in Hospitality Guest Access (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-10372 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-10372 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Guest Access, published on 19 Oct 2017. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10372 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Hospitality Guest Access. 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-2017-10372/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10372/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10372
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10372
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10372

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