# CVE-2017-10396: Privilege escalation in Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere

> A low-privileged attacker with local access can escalate privileges to take over the Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere application.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.9 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 19 Oct 2017
- **Updated:** 4 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5g6f-26w7-q2mm, MGASA-2018-0010

## What is CVE-2017-10396?

CVE-2017-10396 is a critical vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere, published on 19 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: AffairWhere). Supported versions that are affected are 2.2.5.0, 2.2.6.0 and 2.2.7.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere executes to compromise Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10396?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Hospitality Cruise Affairwhere.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-10396?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2017-10396 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10396 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere

- [CVE-2017-10231](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10231/): Information disclosure in Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-10396 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-10396 is a critical vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere, published on 19 Oct 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10396 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Hospitality Cruise AffairWhere. 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-2017-10396/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-10396/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10396
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10396
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10396

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